Three siblings were displaced yesterday after a fire of unknown origin charred a large section of their Stevedore Housing Scheme, South Ruimveldt home.
The fire, which occurred around 3 pm, started in one of the bedrooms situated at the rear of the Lot 3403 Stevedore Housing Scheme property. According to one of the residents, 68-year-old Patricia Hubbard, she was in the shop situated at the front of the home at the time of the fire.
Hubbard noted that she resides with her two brothers, Lawrence Hubbard and Bertram Hubbard. She said that the only thing she could recall was her brother, Bertram, ironing clothes in the bedroom before he left the home. She said that after he was ironing, he had asked her to call a taxi for him so that he could go out. “And I didn’t go back in my bedroom, I come in the shop because remember I was weighing out sugar and these things… is when he [Lawrence] come and call me,” Patricia told Stabroek News
She added that Lawrence, who was in his bedroom at the time, alerted her to the fire and when she went to the door of the house she noticed the entire back room was on fire. “He tell me that is like fire or something and when I come out the shop and I come hay [the doorway to the home] I see the whole back room ablaze,” a distraught Patricia said, while adding that she raised an alarm and the fire service was called.
The fire service arrived on the scene about 30 minutes later and was able to put out the fire. However, the firefighters were not able to save much items from the blaze.
