A Venezuelan man who was working as a carpenter in a house at Plantain Walk, Vreed en Hoop, lost his life early this morning as a fire of unknown origin ripped through the house.
The Guyana Fire Service was alerted to the blaze at around just after 3 o’ clock this morning.
The owner of the house, Bernadette Gordon, said she was about to use the washroom, when she noticed a reflection of the fire on her neighbour’s house and decided to run out of the building.
She said the Venezuelan man, who was only known as Richard, was staying over at the property to complete some work on the building.
Ms. Gordon, who lives abroad and returned to Guyana to begin repairing her house, said efforts were made to assist in getting the carpenter out of the burning house, but those efforts failed.
“I opened my front door and ran down the steps to see where this blaze was coming from, since I thought, it was coming from the next yard but when I go down to the bottom of the yard, it was coming from the corner of my house from the back. But when I opened the door to come out, the vacuum, the air mixed with the power and that is where the guy got gassed and that is where the guy got stuck, people were trying to get him out, they even put ladder and so to get him out”, the homeowner said.
While not knowing the cause of the fire, Ms. Gordon explained that just recently she was forced to get a restraining order against her own sister, after the sister had threatened her to burn down her property. She said the family has three houses in the compound, and there was some disagreement over her property and an event that she would usually host at the end of the year.
She is hoping that a full and thorough investigation will be carried out into the cause of the fire.
The Guyana Fire Service was able to contain the blaze to the one building. It is suspected that the man who perished in the fire, died from smoke inhalation.
A full probe is underway.
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