TWO families are now homeless after a fire gutted their Valsayn home in Saturday.
According to fire officials sometime between 5.30 and 6 pm, residents of Jaffar Street, Bamboo Settlement Number 2 called them alerting them to the fire. The two storey building was 80 per cent burnt with an estimated damage of $1.5 million.
Owner of the home Pooran Persad said the eight people will be taken in by neighbours who all “live like one.”
The families, which include five children, were not at home at the time of the fire Persad said. He added that a neighbour alerted the residents about the fire and the owner of a car parts place next door used his garden hose to assist in outing the blaze.
“No life was lost so that is a great thing. I don’t think it was arson probably just something went wrong” Persad said.
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