A BUSINESSMAN, who produces furniture, lost almost $20M in supplies, in addition to his house and other values during a fire of unknown origin that occurred in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

Mohan Jangbir, 57, called “Pradeep” of lot 248, Good Hope, East Coast Demerara lived in a one-flat concrete house with his wife, son and grandson when he was alerted about the fire around 03:30hrs.

In an interview with this publication, Jangbir secured his workshop and dwelling house before retiring to bed with his family.
At approximately 03:30hrs on Saturday, he was awaken by his neighbour who told him that the property was on fire.

On looking, he said there was a large fire in his work shop. He quickly exited the house with his family as the fire engulfed both properties.
The fire service was summoned but they were unable to save anything. No one was injured in the blaze.

“I manage to move away my vehicle and go inside back the house and tried to save some things, but within no time, the entire place was in fire, my bond that had all my supplies and the workshop was destroyed. My insurance can’t even do anything much in comparison to what I lost; is about $20M in furniture destroy, this is separate from the property,” the businessman said.

He has been living in the area for 18 years and his business has been in existence for over a decade.

“I had about 13 birds in my house that get burned up, I only manage to save two, my monkey that was at the back also was burned,” he said.