| – three homelessA 72-year-old Victoria woman was pulled to safety in the nick of time after fire of unknown origin engulfed her two-flat wood and concrete Victoria, East Coast Demerara residence at around 11:00 hours yesterday.Elizabeth Mc Rae suffered burns to her hands while escaping from the burning building, situated on the Victoria Public Road.Everything in the house was destroyed, despite the efforts of residents who formed a bucket brigade in an attempt to put out the blaze.At the time the fire started, Mc Rae, who shares the house with her husband’s nephew, was asleep and was only aroused when the fire had already consumed a significant portion of the building.Recalling what transpired, Mc Rae, who was in deep pain as a result of the burns, told this newspaper that she was aroused by a noise, and upon checking she saw thick smoke in the interior of the house.“I try to run through de door and de fire catch me and me walk back and break de plywood wall and me keep running. Me neighbour tell me jump over de fence and me come over at me sister,” Mc Rae related, while crying out for pain.She could not say from which part of the house the fire started,jerseys nfl wholesale, since she only saw smoke all over the house.According to Mc Rae, she had not been cooking nor did she leave any electrical appliance on that could have led to the starting of a fire.Neil Fowler, Mc Rae’s nephew, said that he was in the bottom flat when he saw a number of persons coming into the yard, screaming ‘Fire! Fire!’“I kick open de door and go upstairs and bring she (Mc Rae) out,Throwback Jerseys,” said Fowler who is a former fireman. Luckily he did not sustain any burns.Allison London, Mc Rae’s eastern neighbour, told this newspaper that other residents came and told her that they had seen smoke coming from the elderly woman’s house.London, who operates a hair salon, said that when she looked through her window she saw smoke and fire coming from a room at the back of the house.Before she could raise an alarm, almost the entire house was engulfed in fire.By this time the panic-stricken London ran over to another neighbour and called the fire service.She did not know that all the while the fire was threatening her house too.But thanks to residents who began throwing water on her house,Jerseys From China, London’s property was spared.“Liz was in there sleeping. We calling for her; no answer. When the house was really on fire, I saw her hands through the window. So I said,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, ‘Liz jump out, jump out’. I don’t know how she come out,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, I didn’t see her come out, but I later saw her in the yard,” London recalled.Residents said that had it not been for a downpour at the time, there might have been more damage since a fire tender which took some time to arrive did not immediately go into operation because of a lack of water.“The rain really helped because they didn’t have no water. The pipe cut off after the fire started because the pump normally works with current,wholesale jerseys, so it was off. The villagers come out and try to out the fire,” London explained.This is the second fire on the East Coast of Demerara in less than four days, following last Sunday morning’s blaze at La Bonne Intention, which claimed the life of 32-year-old Dexter Giddings.Giddings’s younger brother,Cheap Jerseys From China, Mark, is hospitalised after suffering burns to a significant portion of his body while trying to save him.A post mortem examination performed on Giddings’s remains yesterday revealed that he died from smoke inhalation. Investigations into both fires are ongoing. |
