A family of four is now contemplating their next move after a fire ravaged their Eccles home yesterday morning.
The fire occurred sometime around 8:10 am at Lot 94 CC Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara.
A resident of the home, Samuel Ward, said he and his girlfriend were downstairs while their daughters, ages 2 and 8 months old, were sleeping upstairs when the fire broke out.
“I was downstairs lying in the hammock and my girlfriend, she was downstairs with me. Our two children were sleeping, then we hear the baby crying and she left and went upstairs.
Ward, the owner of City Trucking Service, said that when his girlfriend got upstairs, she saw the circuit breaker box in the front room on fire and she started hollering, alerting him in the process. “I run upstairs behind her. The baby get like a bruise, nothing much,” said a still shocked Ward.
The man said that the fire spread rapidly and in less than an hour, the entire house was in flames. He was unable to save anything else. He estimates his losses to be in the millions. The Guyana Fire Service was said to have arrived on the scene more than an hour later.
Ward had been renting the house for some four years. The landlord is currently abroad.
The gutters on the two neighbouring houses suffered damage from the heat.
