A ROADSIDE vendor is pleading for help after a fire of unknown origin
destroyed his home in Rose Hall Town, East Berbice, Corentyne
on Monday.

The fire, which started at around 17:00 hrs, has left Lloyd Moore, 56, homeless along with his two sons and two grandchildren. He earned a living selling coconuts, clothes and herbal bush on the Public Road.

According to Moore he was taking an afternoon nap when he awoke to the scent of smoke and upon investigating he saw the back of the wooden two bedroom home on fire.

“I did sleeping and I smell smoke so when I jump up I see under de
house on fire so I hurry and wake up me two grandchildren who did
sleeping too and carry them out the house. By the time I reach the
street the whole place catch up on fire”

He continued that the fire quickly engulfed the place and he was
unable to save anything, including cash that he was saving to purchase
his own home.

“The place is not we own. Is a family let we stay and we did saving to
buy we own place so I had close to a million dollars and two generators that supposed to go in the bush to start some work fuh one a meh sons to help we buy we own place, but all a duh gone.Them people had to hold me back cause I did jumping in the place to get them out.  All a me livestock them dead. I had about 16 turkeys and some
chickens, all a dem burn up… I feel sorry for them.” he said with tears in his eyes.

An official from the Guyana Fire Service has explained that they
responded to the fire at around 17:00hrs and realised that given the
location of the house the fire would quickly spread to the neighbouring houses and businesses and a second fire tender was deployed immediately, while they doused and contained the fire. Two crews battled the blaze including two female ranks as the fire spread to the fence and engulfed several trees.