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Residents of Fourth Bridge, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara on Tuesday received a scare after a fire believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, erupted in the vacant fields behind the housing scheme. It then spread towards the houses.According to a resident, the spontaneous combustion was spotted around 14:00 hours on Tuesday, but no one raised an alarm since it posed no immediate threat.Some hours later,Cheap NFL Jerseys, however, the man admitted that he was forced to contact the Fire Service after the flames spread to the bushes immediately behind his lot. The call was made at about 21:30 hours on Tuesday evening.Firemen based at the Diamond Fire Station were seen putting out the small blazes aback the Fourth Bridge houses, having arrived at the location promptly after receiving the call from the concerned residents.Fireman Eon Fraser said that after discovering the area ablaze, the men doused the bushes to stop the fire from spreading to the nearby houses.While noting that such fires were rare in the area, Fraser said that its origin had to have been similar to fires that erupted at garbage sites in Georgetown, since the area aback the houses was once a dump site.He urged that residents remain cautious. |
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