Early morning fire gutted wooden building at Mc Doom- eight homeless

East Bank Demerara : Just minutes to 7:00 a.m today,  a mother of three ran out of her house shouting for fire at Lot 27 Mc Doom East Coast Demerara.

Onika Thompson told TrakkerNews, she was speaking to her boss on the telephone when she heard several explosions coming from her children bedroom. She said it sounded like electrical sparks and she immediately ran into the room and saw the mattress on fire.

The woman quickly looked for her children and ran out for help. The children were all downstairs and within a few minutes the entire upper flat of the building was in flames.

Thompson cried out saying her eldest daughter has to sit examinations this morning an don’t know what will happen now.

Several neighbours and relatives came and console the shaken Thompson.

By the time the Fire department arrived everything in the house and the building were destroyed.

Onika lived with her three children and other relatives.