A quick response by neighbours early on Friday morning saved four children from a fire that ripped through the bottom flat of their home at Supply, Mahaica.
According to Steven McCurdy, around 12 am, a fire started in the lower flat of his sister’s two-storey wooden home at Supply, Mahaica, where his nieces and nephews were asleep at the time. He said that the fire was reportedly started after his 15-year-old nephew lit a candle and it was left burning throughout Thursday night.
“You see, is normal for them to light candles because we don’t have light and we never did. So is the candle he light and left, and it musse bun down and ketch, and that’s how the whole thing started,” he said.
Recalling the harrowing events to Stabroek News, the man