Arson has been determined as the cause of the fire that destroyed Comfort Sleep’s Eccles, East Bank Demerara factory last November and investigators have surmised that it was probably the cause of the first which destroyed its bond weeks earlier.
“It is clear that fire was set to parts of the building… based on our findings of this fire we have come to the conclusion that with their first fire it was the same… someone set the buildings on fire,” Fire Chief Marlon Gentle told Stabroek News yesterday.
An employee of the company informed this publication that while the company has not been formally notified of the cause of the fires, arson had long been suspected as the cause. He said that to date no insurance money has been paid to the owner of the business as the insurance company has not yet finished its own investigations.
Nonetheless the employee said that the workers of the company continue to work at another location and that the owner has vowed not to allow the fires to cause him to quit his business or stop investing here.
The Comfort Sleep bond was destroyed in November last, about three weeks after fire wrecked the company’s factory at the Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara.
