On Friday, Leonard Sandy, 35, his wife, and their three children lost their three-bedroom house. When the fire began, he was nearby attending a funeral. By the time he was alerted and hurried home, the fire had already consumed the majority of the building.
The home included three bedrooms, a kitchen, and a front veranda, according to Leonard. It had a downstairs apartment with one bedroom. Among other things, “I had a refrigerator, TV, microwave, blender, chair set, and kitchen utensils.”
He added that they also lost all their “clothing and jewelry.” “We have the clothes I was wearing when I went to the burial”. His wife was at his mother-in-law’s at the time of the fire.
Leonard said that someone had already phoned the Fire Service by the time he arrived at the house. “But they took a while to come there. But me, I couldn’t get to save anything by my house, so I had to rush over to the neighbor’s house to try to save whatever we could get to save there.”
According to the Guyana Fire Service, the building’s poor electrical wiring caused sparking and arching, which most likely caused neighboring combustibles to catch fire.
