{"id":13486,"date":"2023-10-27T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2023-10-27T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:46:32","slug":"tragic-morning-fire-claims-life-in-new-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/tragic-morning-fire-claims-life-in-new-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Morning Fire Claims Life in New Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In a devastating incident early this morning, a fire of unknown origin claimed the life of a woman in New Amsterdam, Berbice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim, identified as Sharon Austin, 58, was trapped in her home on St. Magdalene Street when the flames engulfed the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin&#8217;s daughter, Brenda Johnson, recounted the heart-wrenching events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was awakened by her daughters&#8217; screams, who were on the upper floor with Austin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon investigation, Johnson discovered the upper flat ablaze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her sons acted heroically, rushing to rescue their sisters and grandmother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragically, Austin became trapped in the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite reaching out to the nearby Guyana Fire Service, their response was delayed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with the urgency of the situation, Johnson personally visited the fire station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the time the fire tender arrived, the upper floor was already consumed by flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preliminary investigations suggest that the fire may have originated near a clothes horse in the room shared by the deceased and her youngest granddaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the Fire Department and the police are conducting a thorough investigation into this tragic incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a devastating incident early this morning, a fire of unknown origin claimed the life of a woman in New Amsterdam, Berbice. The victim, identified as Sharon Austin, 58, was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13488,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}