AN electrical fire consumed a two-bedroom house yesterday morning displacing three persons at Lot 2095 Festival City, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

Chief Fire Officer, Marlon Gentle said that the conflagration started at about 09:00 hours which was caused by an illegal connection to the one-flat edifice which quickly devoured it.
He added that there is no legal circuit on the building which suggests that the house was not wired legally to a connection of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) distribution system.
Gentle said the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) observed that there was a lot of electrical equipment which furnished the house.
The dwelling house was occupied by Alicia Bernard, who is pregnant, her son and reputed husband. No one was injured but the expectant mother was hospitalised and inconsolable since the family did not get to salvage anything.
Meanwhile, Gentle said that as for the fire which destroyed the upper flat of a two-storey house at Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam, Berbice leaving a couple homeless, started when an air conditioning unit malfunctioned.
The air conditioning unit ignited a fire which quickly razed the entire top flat of the building at about 01:30 hours on Saturday morning while the two occupants were asleep, Gentle said.
The Chief Fire Officer stated that the GFS was summoned and contained the blaze to that edifice.
In a separate incident an infant boy perished in a fire on February 7 at his home at Grant Everette-Regina, Lower Pomeroon River.
Police said investigations are being conducted into a fire of, so far, unknown originthat occurred at about 22:00 hours on February 7, 2013 at Grant Everette-Regina, Lower Pomeroon River, which resulted in the death of one-year-old Neo Blount.
Initial investigations have revealed that the child’s parents were aroused by a loud sound and saw the building on fire.  They then ran out of the building which was completely destroyed.
The remains of Neo Blount were later found among the debris.