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(By Mondale Smith) A five-year-old lad who celebrated his birthday yesterday is among a family of six rendered homeless after fire destroyed their home at 137 Nelson Street, Mocha Arcadia.The homeless are five-year-old Clebert, his brother Kempt, 7, and sisters Sowana,Cheap Buffalo Bills Jerseys, 22,NFL Jerseys Outlet, and Odessa,NFL Jerseys China, 20, as well as their father Wade Flue, 48, the homeowner.Also homeless is their cousin Sherwin Hope who resided in the bottom flat.From all accounts,Brian Poole Falcons Jersey UK, the fire started about 15:00hrs. Yesterday, Wade,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, the homeowner who resided in the top flat, with a frustrated look on his face, said he left home for work about 9:00hrs.“I left four people home this morning and went to work and everything was alright.”By afternoon as he stood at a shop some distance away in the street he was alerted by a passer-by that there was a fire in the village. “When I look I see the smoke and thought it could be my house and so I start riding.” His worst fears were confirmed.Reflecting with downcast eyes he said,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, “The fire was in my upstairs and I saw the flames from the northern window of my bedroom but the flames was too much for me to save anything so I lost all I own except the clothes on my back. I got to start over.”The distraught man said that while he has lost everything he is grateful that his children were not harmed.Wade inherited the house from his parents and had been living there for the past 20 years. “What a birthday this is. My son turn five today and now he ain’t got no place to call home. I got to start over from scratch.”While some speculated that the fire may have started as a result of one of the children playing with matches,Wholesale NBA Jerseys China, Wade said he only uses lighters. He also stated that he only purchases one pint of kerosene daily which he shares between the lamp and the stove.A family friend said that she visited the home some time later she and the rest of the household left the building. It was about 14:45 hrs and all was well.She recalled sending her brother back to the house to find her cellular phone and he found it in the yard. She lives two doors away. “I went home took a bath and was lying down when I started to smell smoke and when I looked out the whole upstairs was on fire,” she said.Minutes later the Guyana Fire Service was summoned while residents tried desperately to extinguish the blaze using a bucket brigade. But the blaze was too much. The fire engine arrived about 15 minutes after the call but by then the building was totally engulfed in flames. Residents lauded their efforts none-the-less.Efforts by the fire service to conduct an interview with the two boys were futile as their father insisted that they were too small to be interviewed even in his presence.He said that they had suffered enough for one day.The nephew who resided in the bottom flat was at work when he got the call that his home was on fire.By the time he arrived, all his belongings were destroyed. |
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