A family of five is now homeless after an early morning fire gutted their two-storey, La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara home yesterday.
Sixty-one-year-old Parbattie Baggie along with her son, her daughter-in-law and her two grandchildren are now forced to seek shelter at their family after a fire that is believed to be electrical in origin ripped through their home around 10 am.
According to Baggie, she was on the lower flat with her grandchildren cooking when a neighbour related to her that she was seeing heavy smoke coming from the back of the house.
“Me been deh downstairs ah cook. The two children ah play and an old man that does beg de sit down downstairs and me neighbour
