A family is left wondering their next move after their South East, Cummings Lodge home went up in flames around midday Thursday.

Counting their losses are Rupnarain Sookram, 61, his two daughters Natasha and Christina, and his four tenants, who resided in a housing unit at the back of the two storey property.

“I don’t know where I would rest tonight. I gah ask somebody to let me stay tonight, some neighbor or something,” Sookram lamented as he looked on at his still smoking property.

The fire was reportedly first noticed around noon but by then it was already raging. Most of a wooden house at the back was already consumed and the upper flat was well on its way to follow suit. The situation rendered at least one neighbor, “Finey”, to tears.

“Meh sorry fuh them bad. Them people this is nice people. When meh see this meh start cry.”

Finey lives three houses away from the burnt building and says she was the first person to notice the fire and started to alert the other neighbors begging them to save what they could from the house and to form a fire brigade.

Thanks to Finey’s efforts some of the furniture of the bottom flat, including a bed, were saved. Prompt response from the fire service also saw the bottom flat being saved.