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Swift action by some residents of Seventh Field,Cheap Jerseys From China, South Cummings Lodge,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, yesterday saved a house from being completely destroyed by fire.Reports are that around 11:00 hours yesterday fire broke out in a bedroom of the lower flat of a two-storey house located at 696 Seventh Field,Cheap NFL Wholesale Jerseys, Cummings Lodge.A neighbour, Indira Bridgemohan, noticed the fire and raised an alarm. Some Guyana Water Inc. workers who were in the area were alerted and rushed to the house. They were forced to break down the door. At the same time residents formed a bucket brigade using water from a nearby drain.An eyewitness said that public-spirited citizens were forced to break down a wall in the house to get to the fire which started in the southernmost bedroom in the house.The Guyana Fire Service was summoned to the scene but by the time it arrived the fire was already out, having been contained to the bedroom in which it started. Most of the items in the room were destroyed.Landlord Mark Forde said that he was at his place of work in Kitty when he received a call informing him that his house was on fire. He said that the flat where the fire started was occupied by Wadewattie Raman, a teacher of the Cummings Lodge Secondary School. She was at school when the incident occurred.She too received a telephone call that caused her to race home. She said that she lost everything in the bedroom but that they could be replaced.Fire officials blamed the fire on a lighted mosquito coil that caught on a blind. But Ms Raman said that the coil the firefighters might have seen was last used more than a week ago.She said that the room contained nothing electrical so any thought of an electrical origin should also be ruled out.Neighbours said that they knew no one who would have had a problem with the teacher so they ruled out arson. |
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