A HEAVILY grilled four-storey building currently being constructed at Regent and Alexander streets in Georgetown started emitting smoke, then fire, at the rear end of its top floor yesterday evening, much to the dismay of alarmed passersby, who stopped to stare in disbelief.Prompt response from the Guyana Fire Service saved the situation from deteriorating into a disaster.

“We have not been told yet what exactly transpired. As you can see, the building is not being occupied, it is under construction,” a GFS officer on scene told the Guyana Chronicle. “But once the Fire Service got here, they had to rip open the grill at the top of the building to get to extinguish the fire.”

The owner of the building, observed in conversation with the police and members of the Guyana Fire Service, declined to speak to the press.

(Svetlana Marshall)