A COTTAGE was gutted yesterday morning as a result of a suspected electrical fire, displacing a woman who lived alone in the same yard as her relatives at Lot 58 Third Street, Houston, East Bank Demerara.Fire victim Pamela Alfred told this publication that she did not manage to save anything, because she was not at home at the time of the fire which reportedly started at about after 09:00 hrs.

Alfred added that she was about three houses away when the blaze ripped through her modest wooden house and was alerted to the conflagration by a neighbour, who related that her house was ablaze.

The distraught woman said she was born and grew up at the location and it is a terrible loss for her, and she is contemplating her next move, with nowhere to stay.

Meanwhile, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) was summoned and contained the blaze to that building and hinted that the fire may have been one of an electrical nature, since the front house shared electricity with the razed cottage.

The police and employees of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. were also on the fire scene.