A MIDDAY fire partially destroyed the home of an unemployed couple at Plantation Mount Sinai, commonly referred to as Angoy’s Avenue.

Karmachal Narine, 27, who lived at the three-bedroom house with his parents, recalled leaving his father, Narine, in one of the bedrooms on the upper floor to go downstairs to finish preparing lunch, as his mother was not at home.

He said it was while doing so that he heard screams of “Fire! Fire!” coming from his father.
Rushing upstairs, he said he noticed the middle bedroom on fire, and on raising an alarm, kind neighbours formed a bucket brigade and tried to control the blaze until the firemen from Central Fire Station arrived and extinguished it.

It was subsequently discovered that a bed, a television set, a music set along with a quantity of clothing, all valued around $500,000, were damaged in the fire.
Investigations are continuing.