A fire yesterday destroyed a two-storey wooden and concrete house in Maida Village, Corentyne, leaving a family counting millions of dollars in losses and contemplating their next move.
Asif Mohammed, 46, a vendor at the New Amsterdam Market and of Lot 25 Maida Farm, Corentyne explained that he left home yesterday morning to take his aunt to a lab to get a Covid–19 test done. However, while there he was informed by his wife that the house they occupy was engulfed in flames. “By the time I get back the whole house was flat”, the devastated man relayed.
He said that his neighbours rushed over and offered assistance.
Mohammed’s house was completely destroyed and his neighbour’s premises was scorched on one side as a result of the 9 am fire.
Based on initial information he received, the fire started in the upper flat of the house in the front room where the electrical box is “because everybody was downstairs cooking and doing what they got to do.”
Mohamed’s relatives were having a function yesterday for a deceased relative in the same village and the preparation of food was being done at his house.
Noting that his house was fully furnished, Mohammed said, “My cupboard alone over a million and something dollar, granite and everything.”
