TWO residents of ‘A’ Field, Sophia are now homeless after an early morning fire ravaged their home on Sunday at about 8:00hrs, when they had gone out.A neighbour told the Guyana Chronicle she was alerted by screams of “Fire! Fire!”, and when she rushed out, she saw her neighbour’s house on fire.

“When I came out, I saw the fire was spreading over to my house; so I called my relatives who were home to help contain the fire with some buckets of water, until the fire service arrived….

“Ravi (occupant of the home) was not home at the time,” the neighbour said.

According to residents, Ravi and his mother Devi, who have been occupying the residence for the past two decades, are abroad.

While a quick response from the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) did not save the building, it prevented the blaze from spreading to nearby houses.

The Guyana Fire Service has launched an investigation into the blaze.