A FIRE believed to be electrical in nature completely destroyed a house at Aurora Village in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) on Saturday afternoon.
Javid Gafoor, one of the occupants of the two-storey concrete house, told the Sunday Chronicle that he and his family were sitting outside when around 17:00hrs, they saw an electrical wire spark.

“We saw it and by the time we knew it, our entire two-storey home was on fire, we can’t believe what has happened. Many persons came to help but everything was burnt,” a distraught Gafoor said.

The lower flat of the house was occupied by a woman and her children, while the Gafoors resided in the upper flat. The families are now distressed as everything they owned were destroyed; the Gafoors estimate their losses to be over $10 million.

“All we clothes, we kitchen items, we sofa, bed everything burnt. We don’t know what to do next. It’s really sad, we are really shocked, Gafoor said.

The families are, however, lucky to be alive since they claimed that the fire immediately spread from the wire to the house. Officers from the Anna Regina fire station were summoned but their efforts to save the house were futile. An investigation has been launched into the cause of the fire.