Officer-in-Charge of Operations at the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) Compton Sparman, yesterday testified that given the security risks that exist within the prison system, the fire service had to wait on the directive of prison authorities to proceed on rescue efforts on the morning of March 3, when the lives of 17 inmates were lost.
This was the evidence he gave under examination by Counsel Eusi Anderson, who is representing the Guyana Fire Service and the Guyana Defence Force, when the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the tragedy continued.
Anderson had asked the officer what prevented the firemen from accessing the
