Four persons are now homeless after an afternoon fire flattened their Lot 63 Phase One, Good Hope Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, home.
The blaze started at about 14:00h on Saturday. At the time, an elderly man who lives in the house with his son, daughter-in-law and 11-month-old grandchild were at home alone.
Guyana Times understands that the elderly man stays in the back section of the wooden house and it was there that the fire started.
When this newspaper visited the scene, the fire was already extinguished and none of the occupants of the destroyed house was there. Neighbours said they had gone to the Police Station.
The Good Hope, ECD house that was raised by fire on Saturday
Nevertheless, Guyana Times was told that neighbours noticed the blaze and subsequently saw the elderly man running out of the building. The Fire Service was summoned and arrived promptly, thus they were able to put out the fire.
This is the fourth fire for the week. On Friday, two families were rendered homeless in two separate fires in Georgetown. A fire suspected to have been caused by a faulty electrical connection broke out at the Lot 6 Company Park, Yarrow Dam, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown leaving 65-year-old Hermon Norton and his, wife Geeta Norton, 63, without a roof over their heads.
Meanwhile, a family of three of Lot 35 West La Penitence, Georgetown, lost everything in a fire suspected to be as a result of arson.
Additionally, on Tuesday last, over two dozen persons were left homeless after an early morning fire ripped through three houses in Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown, flattening them and partly destroying a fourth.
