No efforts were spared on Wednesday morning when authorities responded to a call that two persons were trapped under the wreckage of a two-storey wooden building that collapsed at First Street, Campbellville, Georgetown.
A two-storey wooden building collapsed at First Street, Campbellville, Georgetown
Divisional Commander of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS), Gregory Wickham told media operatives at the scene that the Fire Service received a call sometime in the morning that the house had collapsed and that a mother and son might be trapped.
A crane was deployed at the site to comb through the rubble in search of bodies, as scores of onlookers watched with bated breaths.
“We received a call that a structure had collapsed and two persons were said to be in the structure,” the GPF Divisional Commander explained.
He said a team of firemen began a manual search until they managed to get assistance from a private contractor.
“We got an equipment from a private contractor to remove some of the overburden. When that overburden was in the process of being removed, we got a call to say that the persons were not in the structure,” Wickham explained.
Reports indicate that the woman and her adult son were not at home at the time of the incident.
It is unclear what caused the building to collapse.
However, persons at the scene lauded the Fire Service for their efforts.
