{"id":14388,"date":"2023-11-29T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=14388"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:06:04","slug":"fire-destroys-home-and-furniture-establishment-in-canje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/fire-destroys-home-and-furniture-establishment-in-canje\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Destroys Home and Furniture Establishment in Canje"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>A fire of unknown origin has completely destroyed a two-story wooden and concrete structure at Lot 61 West Canefield, East Canje Berbice, leaving six people homeless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building housed a furniture establishment operated by 52-year-old Deodat Tikchand and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tikchand reported that the fire started around 9:45 PM. He was awakened by his sister, who informed him that a fire had started on the lower flat of the building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his efforts to intervene, the fire quickly engulfed the area that housed the furniture establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Royan-Fire-in-Canje-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tikchand ensured that the building was completely evacuated while awaiting the arrival of the Guyana Fire Service, which took some time to reach the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Tikchand lost over 32 years&#8217; worth of equipment and recently purchased items for his joiner shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Royan-Fire-in-Canje-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the significant losses, Tikchand expressed determination not to give up on his business and plans to restart as soon as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire of unknown origin has completely destroyed a two-story wooden and concrete structure at Lot 61 West Canefield, East Canje Berbice, leaving six people homeless. The building housed a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14388","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\/14388","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=14388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14392,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions\/14392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}