Fire on Tuesday night destroyed Mario’s Juice Bar and Grill on Sheriff Street, Georgetown.
The Guyana Fire Service [GFS] said it was alerted by a phone call received around 11:13 pm and three water tenders were dispatched to the location. The one-flat concrete building and its contents were almost completely destroyed.
Stabroek News visited the Juice Bar at Lot 278 Sheriff Street yesterday but the proprietor, Mario Joseph, was not at the location. The supervisor of Dave and Danny’s Waffle House Diner and Sports Bar told this newspaper, “We were locking up to go home when the security came over to us and said there is a fire at [Mario’s] bar, I then ride… to the fire service, not too far from here, and they came like about 10 minutes after. We were even trying to call the owner of the store but we weren’t getting him.”
The Mario’s Juice Bar and Grill opened in 2020.
In a statement yesterday, the GFS said that water tenders #105, #114, water carrier #16 and a water bowser from the Central and Campbellville fire stations were immediately dispatched to the location.
The GFS said that the purported cause of the fire is the overheating of a faulty industrial chiller, which ignited and spread to the entire building.
Two jets working from WT#114 and WT#16 tank supplies, followed by a water relay from a water bowser, were used to extinguish the fire.
