RECENTLY-appointed Commander of ‘G’ Division (Essequibo Coast and Islands), Crystal Robinson has lost her Stewartville, West Coast Demerara home and three vehicles that went up in flames in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

The house was located at 154 Back Street, Stewartville, West Coast Demerara.
Reports indicate that the commander attended the police pageant at the National Cultural Centre Friday night when she received a call, minutes after midnight, about the fire.
No one was inside the house at the time of the fire and upon arrival, the woman superintendent saw her two-storey home engulfed in flames. She was unable to save anything.

The superintendent lived in the house with four other relatives.
One neighbour said the flames emanated from the garage where the three vehicles were parked “but the fire engines take some time to get here but when they reached they couldn’t do anything much”.

“When the fire engine get here they had some problems; the first fire truck stick in some mud, the second came without water and the third one had to pump water from the trench,” one resident said.

Meanwhile, the commander noted that she is thankful that no one was in the house at the time of the fire and no one was hurt as a result of the fire.

“Some said it started in the garage because it had three vehicles in the garage; some said it started in the bedroom, so I don’t know, I don’t know; it’s only the fire department could tell me what really happened when they are finished doing their jobs,” Superintendent Robinson said.