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-five homeless Fire struck again on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday, this time destroying a two-bedroom wooden house at 576 Phase One, Good Hope, leaving a young couple and their three children homeless.A distraught Budimdra Khemraj and his reputed wife, Shenieza Powday.This is the fourth major fire on the East Coast of Demerara, and the sixth throughout the country over the past three days.And, once again, the blame is being laid squarely at the feet of the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated.Budimdra Khemraj, 21, and his reputed wife, Shenieza Powday, along with their three children, aged eight,Jerseys From China, six years old, and eight months,Cheap Jerseys, were not at home when the fire started, at about 16:50 hours.The young father told this newspaper that he and his family had been spending the weekend at another relative a few blocks away,China NFL Jerseys, attending a nine-day celebration. This is a celebration to mark the ninth day of a child’s life.He claimed that he had made sure that the one electrical connection in his house was disconnected before he and his family left the house.According to Khemraj,Wholesale MLB Jerseys, a woman from the neighbourhood came and told him that his house was on fire, and he immediately went to investigate.His worst fears were confirmed when he saw his entire house engulfed in flames.“By the time we go, the whole house pon fire,” Khemraj told Kaieteur News.Powday,cheap nfl jerseys, his reputed wife, disclosed that apart from the one electrical connection in their house, the family uses a fireside for cooking.“We didn’t cook since Friday, because we ain’t been home. So it got to be de current,” she commented.Firemen go through the rubble for clues to yesterdayThe family said that nothing was saved, and even to the few pigeons and creole fowls that they were rearing suffered as a result of the fire.“The only thing we left with is de clothes we wearing,” Powday said.Fire tenders from the Guysuco LBI Estate and from the Central Fire Service in Georgetown were at the scene,MLB Jerseys From China, but they could only douse the embers.On Saturday, fire believed to be of electrical origin flattened a two-storey building, resulting in the death of 85-year-old Vivian Rodney, called German, at Golden Grove; while a man set fire to his Non Pareil house,Wholesale Jerseys, leaving his wife and five children homeless.Residents of the East Coast of Demerara have intensified the call for a fire station to be located in the district, since they claim that the distance is too far for a fire tender to travel to save their homes in the event of fire.Within recent times, some lucky residents have relied on neighbours who possess water pumps to render assistance. |
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