IT was a devastating sight Sunday afternoon in D’Andrade Street, Kitty, Georgetown as a senior officer of the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) watched her home go up in flames.

Firefighters were called to the location to battle the blaze which started in the upper-flat of the woman’s home shortly after she left to attend a work-related meeting.
It was reported that there was no other person in the upper-flat of the building when the fire started. Efforts to ascertain if the lower-flat and the upper-flat of the home were connected proved futile.

According to reports, a woman indicated that she saw smoke emanating from the house sometime after 16:00hrs.
When Guyana Chronicle arrived at the location, the firefighters were out and about trying to put out the blaze.

After some time fighting the fire and preventing it from spreading to a nearby building, the firefighters were forced to seek water from a nearby source as their tenders which all came filled, were exhausted.

The men worked under the watchful eyes of residents and some of the woman’s colleague who abandoned the meeting to go and render assistance.
She did not say anything definitively about the fire but indicated that it was ‘The Lord’ who provided her with the house and he will continue to provide.
Shortly after, the distraught woman verbally abused a journalist from a television station after she observed him interviewing a woman who claimed to have been the first to notice the fire.

The GPL employee also lashed the woman who was providing the interview several times on her back to get her to stop speaking with the reporter.
Houses which were situated close to the burning building also suffered some amount of water damage. Investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the fire.