| Five persons, including a one-year-old baby, are now homeless following a fire of so far unknown origin that ripped through their Lot 42 Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home yesterday afternoon.The burnt-out buildingThe fire, which started about 4:30pm, quickly ravaged the upper flat of the two-storey building and left only the four concrete walls at the bottom flat.Those without a place to call home are Odessa Williams, her husband, Othman Williams, their children, Mariah and Mark and one of their relatives,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, Meena Watson, who is also the owner of the property. Watson was occupying the upper flat of the property while the Williams lived in the lower flat.Yesterday, when Kaieteur News arrived at the scene, fire fighters had already put out the fire. According to Odessa Williams, the fire started in the front room of the upper flat.“I was downstairs, in front with my fan,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and my baby was in the bedroom. I hear something fall from upstairs, so I say to myself that it was some rat but shortly after, I hear something going like fireworks, so I go out and peep. The GPL (Guyana Power and Light Company) meter was right on the wall by the window upstairs, so I am not sure if it was that (meter) that caused the fire,Cheap Jerseys,” a devastated Williams recalled.She explained that shortly after she heard the “strange” sounds,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, “I see smoke in the room upstairs so I shout for my son and tell him to bring out his sister. I tried to go upstairs but the door was locked and then the smoke started big upstairs.”Williams,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, who has been living at the now destroyed property for the past six year,cheap jerseys online, said that she only save the clothes on her body, “nothing else. Everything just burn to ashes.”Odessa WilliamsThe owner of the property told this newspaper that she was at the Providence Magistrate’s Court since yesterday morning and only leant about the fire when she reached in front of her yard. “While I was walking in, I hear people talking about a fire but I had no idea that it was my home.”“When I reach close by, then I realized it was my house. I didn’t leave any lights on, nothing at all. In the morning when I wake up, I does make sure all the lights are off so I really can’t say how the fire started,” the elderly woman stressed.Fire fighters are investigating the cause of the fire.A devastated Meena Watson |
