Eighteen orphans of the Shaheed’s Girls Orphanage were awakened after an early morning fire at their Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) residence on Saturday.
Reports are the fire started at about 06:45h in the upper flat of the partially wooden and concrete building, which is located at Lots 7 and 8, Oleander Gardens, Ogle, ECD.
This newspaper was told that one of the two caretakers, 59-year-old Shantie Pooram, was alerted by one of the children, who noticed the dense smoke emerging from a room on the western end of the building.
An alarm was raised, and the children were rushed out of the building. The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were also alerted about the fire.
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