Quick action by the Guyana Fire Service [GFS] averted the complete destruction of a building at Lot 97 Hadfield Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgtown.
At approximately 17:12 p.m. yesterday, the Guyana Fire Service responded to a report of a house on fire at the said location. Water tenders and an ambulance from the Central and West Ruimveldt fire stations were dispatched to the location where a one-story wooden and concrete building was threatened by fire, the result of a lighted gas stove left unattended. Firefighters managed to put out the blaze, saving the building and its contents, which suffered no damage.
