NADIA Fraser, a resident of Ann’s Grove who was tremendously affected by a fire on Wednesday which completely destroyed her neighbour’s house, is now looking to put the pieces back together in her home following some amount of water and fire damage.
During this newspaper’s visit to her home on Thursday, Fraser recounted that on Wednesday she was just getting out of bed to cook at 05:00hrs, when she heard someone calling out to her brother to alert him about the fire.

She said that she quickly ran back upstairs to call the Guyana Fire Service and then alerted the rest of the community, who came out in numbers, some crying; others armed themselves with buckets to douse her building as the fire was blowing towards it.

By the end of it all, she had suffered damage to a number of household items, including her furniture. She also spoke of extensive damage which was done to the wall and window which she has already begun repairing with the help of her sister, who had previously lived at the house.

According to Fraser, she cannot immediately put a price tag to the amount of money she is expected to spend to get her place back in order; but she did indicate that some items which had to be thrown away would also have to be replaced. She also confirmed that the damage will surely cause her several setbacks.

Meanwhile, over at the house where the fire took place, friends and relatives of the pensioner who is still overseas were looking to see what they could salvage from among the rubble.

We were told that the woman is finding it hard to cope with the complete destruction of her home, but according to local relatives, she has seven of her eight children beside her and they have been offering the support she needs.

One of her sons is also expected to travel to Guyana soon to take control of the situation here, as the family ponders the next move.

The Guyana Fire Service is of the view that the fire started as a result of an overheated wire, which was triggered by a number of power outages which the community had experienced before the fire was discovered.