A Senior teacher attached to the Alexander Village Nursery School is now contemplating her next move, after an early morning fire destroyed her Cummings Street, Georgetown home, while damaging a nearby building.

The teacher – Sandra Sandy – told News Source that she was at home with her niece this morning, preparing for school, when she heard neighbours shouting that the building was on fire.

“I was getting ready to go to school. I heard the neighbours saying, Sandra, fire! Fire! Fire! When I run to the back, I saw the fire in the roof of the second room. But we could not have gone in. So, I told my niece, see what you can grabble and run. We couldn’t out it at all,” the 53-year-old teacher recalled.

The teacher and her niece were only able to save a few important documents.

The fire reportedly started in Miss Sandy’s bedroom. However, she could not say what could have possibly caused the devastating blaze. She explained that when she was alerted to the fire, she was in another section of the house in the upper flat of the two storey wooden and concrete building.

“Nothing, because I usually turn off the fan; before I come off the bed, I turned off the fan, that’s it. We ain’t had no iron, no nothing, nothing electrical was on,” Miss Sandy said.

While the Guyana Fire Service responded to the blaze, and managed to extinguish the fire, preventing it from destroying other buildings, Miss Sandy said had the fire tenders arrived much earlier, her home could have been saved.  

“To be truthful, if they could have come a little earlier, I could have saved a lot of things. [But] they came fully loaded I must say, fully loaded,” she said.

The teacher estimates her losses to be in the millions. She explained that her adult niece is currently building her own home, and had purchased a number of household articles to move into her home. All of those items were destroyed in the blaze.

Miss Sandy lived at the premises for over 20 years. She said anyone interested in offering her assistance could contact her on telephone number 660-0440.

The side of a neighbouring building, which houses the Julian’s Guest House and Restaurant, was partially damaged by the fire.

The Guyana Fire Service is currently investigating the cause of the fire.

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