“We lost everything” – Corentyne woman says as home gutted by fire

…6 homeless

Six persons are now homeless after a fire of unknown origin destroyed their home at Tarlogie, Upper Central Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) on Tuesday.
The fire was seen emanating from a bedroom of the two-storey building shortly before 04:00h on Tuesday, and
Shaneka Joseph, who was asleep at the time, told this publication that it was a cousin who alerted her to the fire.

“She ran out of her bedroom — my bed is right next to hers — and she said that there was a fire, and I could have seen the flames. I started shouting for my brother and my mom. The entire bed was on flames already, (and) my brother threw about two buckets of water, and like he made everything worse; because, in a matter of minutes, everything was in shambles,” she detailed.

Joseph, who works as a waitress, lived in the three-bedroom wooden-and-concrete structure with her daughter, along with her mother, brother, sister and cousin; and nobody was able to save anything.
“Basically, everything that is supposed to be in a house, we had those; and we lost all of it! We lost everything! We don’t have a stable contact number at the moment. We are just trying to fix our (lives), which is having our mental health stable so we can carry on. But, so far, our neighbours have been very generous to us, and we are very grateful for that. At this point, we are not sure how to welcome help from outsiders, but we are just trying to gather ourselves,” Joseph has said.
Persons willing to assist the family in their rebuilding efforts are invited to contact them on telephone number (592) 325-3128.
Meanwhile, the Rose Hall Town Fire Department has come in for praise for being able to prevent the blaze from spreading to other buildings. (G4)