A FIRE, the cause of which is yet to be determined by the Guyana Fire Service (GFS),  partly gutted and blackened the lower flat of a two-storey dwelling house at Lot 29 Anira Street, Queenstown, Georgetown yesterday afternoon.

Chief Fire Officer, Marlon Gentle said that when the GFS received the fire call, they responded with two fire tenders and a tanker and were able to contain the blaze to the bottom flat of the edifice, which is concrete.
On arrival at the scene, Gentle said firemen had to break into the building to get to the point of the fire which is said to have started in a bedroom on the lower flat of the house.
Gentle said the fire began on a mattress in the room, while the occupant Shawn Brhamdeow, 42 was not at home.
At the scene yesterday, fire fighters were there interviewing the occupants and conducting their investigations.
However, Shawn’s father – who is the owner of the house, Peter Brhamdeow, 68, told the Guyana Chronicle that he resides in the upper flat of the building which is wooden with his other son, Gregory Brhamdeow, his grandson, Dwayne and his nephew, James Patterson, and was at home when he was alerted to the fire.
Peter stated that he went to enquire and was stifled by thick smoke which consumed the place. The elderly man said he tried to soak the building from the outside with several buckets of water he had stored, but after realising that the flames were becoming unbearable, he telephoned the GFS.
The man also told this publication that his sons, Gregory and Shawn, do not get along and are often at ‘logger heads’.