A family of eight is now homeless after a midday fire, suspected to have been caused by an electrical spark, gutted their Melanie Damishana home yesterday. Bevaughn Austin, Sherwin McAlman and six children now have to find shelter elsewhere after the fire burned through their two-storey house just three months after they moved in.
While neither Austin nor McAlman was at home at the time of the incident, one of the children who was present related the sequence of events to Stabroek News. “I was in the veranda around 1:15 and we had blackout all day since 8. It was coming off and coming on all the time for like four times before the time,” he said, stating that after the electricity came back on for the
