At about 2:34 am yesterday the Guyana Fire Service was alerted to a fire at Lot 110 Grove Public Road, East Bank Demerara.
A release from the fire service said that Water Tenders from the Eccles and Diamond fire stations were immediately dispatched to the location.
The structure involved was a two-storey wooden and concrete building owned by Dacie Metamon, who is deceased.
The building housed four families, a total of thirteen persons.
The purported cause of the fire is a malicious setting by person(s) unknown, the release said.
As a result of the fire, the building and its contents were destroyed.
Two jets working from light pump #82 using an open water source and one jet working from a water bowser were used to put out the fire.
