An early morning fire at Eccles, on the East Bank of Demerara, yesterday completely gutted the home of six persons, including a three-month-old baby.
Divisional Officer of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) Dwayne Scotland, who was on site when Stabroek News arrived at the scene, explained that preliminary enquiries revealed that the fire originated from a mattress in one of the rooms of the house, located at Lot 57 CC Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
“The mattress was on fire first… in the first bedroom [and] it was extinguished and subsequently the middle bedroom’s mattress was on fire,” Scotland explained.