A man suffered third degree burns yesterday after he fell into a trash heap which flared up.
Hardeo Rampersaud, 32, was attempting to burn a pile of rubbish in Lusignan when there was a flare-up.
“I don’t know what exactly happen but I hear somebody asked he to burn a trash heap on the road corner and that is when it happened,” his sister, Sheila Rampersaud told Stabroek News yesterday. She said that the man is a known alcoholic and would drink early every morning.
“He doesn’t have a job so he would go around the community and do various things and they would give he a small piece,” she explained, adding that as usual the man was consuming alcohol before the incident occurred. She said that someone gave him a box of matches and asked him to burn the heap and said he would be paid.
“I don’t know if he didn’t know there was gasoline there but as soon as he light the match it flare up straight in he face,” she said, explaining that when the trash heap ignited and flared in Rampersaud’s face, he fell towards the fire.
“As soon as it catch he and he fall he start to holler and that’s when people hear and they rush to he with water and what not and put out the fire and him,” she said. Rampersaud was subsequently rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted. The man suffered from third degree burns on both hands, his leg, and his back.
He is currently at the hospital in a stable condition.
