The fires that destroyed part of the living quarters for teachers of the Bygeval Secondary School and a section of the Parfait Harmonie Primary School remain under investigation, according to Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle, who said they are “complicated.”
“We are getting somewhere, we have an idea but I don’t want to rush and say anything… these fires are more complicated,” Gentle told Stabroek News, when contacted for an update on the fires, which occurred on Monday night and Tuesday morning.
It was around 11am when one of the students writing the Grade Six assessment examination at Parfait Harmonie observed on Tuesday that smoke was emanating from a section of the school and raised an alarm. The children were safely removed from the building but the section of the school that housed the headmistress’ office, the library, kitchen and classrooms for over 100 nursery school students was destroyed.
Five families were displaced when fire tore through the Bygeval school teaching quarters on Monday night. Part of the head teacher’s apartment and a number of adjoining apartments were destroyed by the fire. They were occupied by 17 persons, including nine children. No one knew how the fire, which started in the head teacher’s quarters between 10pm and 11pm, began.
