By Antonio Dey
Former deputy headmistress of the Mahdia Secondary School, Amanda Nedd, yesterday said that the Guyana Fire Service was “clearly disorganized” in its approach towards the school’s dormitory fire which claimed 20 lives.
Nedd, an educator for nearly 25 years, told the Commission of Inquiry that the body language of the fire-fighters on the fire scene suggested that they were disoriented, confused, or did not know what they were doing.
“When they arrived it was very chaotic because it was like they were unsure about what they were doing and they were very much disorganised. It is like they were not trained to attend to this situation and that is my personal view because I was looking forwards towards a quick response which I did not get from them [fire-fighters],” the former deputy head mistress told the inquiry.
