RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

Nine peo­ple, in­clud­ing one child un­der the age of 18, are now home­less af­ter a fire gut­ted their home at Or­ange Field Road in Cara­pichaima.

The house was the child­hood home of so­ca artiste Heav­en “Snakey” Charles.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia at the lo­ca­tion, Charles’ sis­ter, Maria Es­delle said the fire broke out about 5.32 pm Thurs­day.

“On­ly my broth­er was home and he was asleep when peo­ple alert­ed him that the house was on fire. He woke up just in time and ran out. He couldn’t sal­vage any­thing.”

“The fire start­ed to the back of the house on the top lev­el and in no time it quick­ly spread on the en­tire top floor de­stroy­ing every­thing. Down­stairs of our home was se­vere­ly wa­ter dam­aged,” Es­delle added.

Es­delle said it was on­ly sev­en months ago that her moth­er passed away and now her home is de­stroyed.

“The fire of­fi­cials were sup­posed to re­turn to­day (Fri­day) to in­ves­ti­gate fur­ther for the com­ple­tion of the re­port be­cause any­where we go we need the re­port. Who­ev­er is will­ing to help us and knows where we are, are free to come by. We ap­pre­ci­ate the help,” Es­telle said.

Fire of­fi­cers of the Fire Pre­ven­tion Unit are yet to com­plete their in­ves­ti­ga­tions which will de­ter­mine the pos­si­ble cause and ori­gin of the fire.