A MID-Morning fire at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) left three persons homeless and damage to a neighbouring property on Saturday.

The fire, which started at approximately 11:10hs, ripped through a small two- story house located at lot 56 Vigilance, ECD. According to Adela Duncan, the only person home at the time of the fire, she was cooking when she heard a loud noise.
“This morning I was cooking and in front and I hear something make BOW. When I watch, I see smoke already up high, so I holler and I run downstairs and my neighbour holler said ‘oh god watch fire’.”
Duncan said she is not sure how the fire started but because she heard a loud noise she believes the cause could have been electrical in nature. “This fire come so quick, when I reach out there is like me’en know what happen,” she told Guyana Chronicle.
“Is just this meh have on. Everything, everything bun up. Me had $200,000, me passport, ID card, everything burn up. Me lef with nothing, nothing,” exclaimed the 57 – year – old woman.

Duncan, who lives in one of two apartments at the house with her reputed husband Dennis Baggot, told this newspaper that she smelled nothing burning. She explained that it was a strange occurrence as she never experienced electrical problems before.
The frustrated woman said, “me’en got nothing and nobody fuh help me…all we bed burn up…meh big TV…fridge wha me nah use yet…everything gone.”
The housewife said she will reach out to the Guyana Relief Council as she and her husband have nowhere to stay. Meanwhile, a devastated Dennis Baggot was observed looking at the destroyed house and shaking his head. He told Guyana Chronicle that he was not at home at the time the fire started.
“I ain’t went home, I went four corner from here and two lil boys come and tell me the house on fire; when I come everything done with… me ain’t know nun,” said the 46 – year -old man.
He could not estimate the losses but said, “We had nuff, nuff thing…me can’t give the average man.”
“We ain’t got nothing and nobody…is me alone and me mistress,” he lamented while riding away on a bicycle.
Meanwhile, one neighbour Gail Williamson said she called the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) at approximately 11:15hs after she heard screams of “fire, fire!” She said they waited approximately 45 minutes to an hour before the fire tenders arrived.
According to Williamson, neighbours decided to form a bucket brigade as the fire quickly spread to a nearby house.
“When they come everything done, when I called them at 11:15hs the house was smoking and the fire had to ketch up and blaze and then bun down…they took long to come,” she said.
Another neighbour,Nikisha London told Guyana Chronicle that her house was damaged by the fire.
“All the windows are broken, chairs soaked, fence burned, the blinds burned…” the woman said. She could not estimate her loss.