{"id":32925,"date":"2026-11-04T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=32925"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:30:17","slug":"blairmont-fire-leaves-family-of-four-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/blairmont-fire-leaves-family-of-four-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Blairmont fire leaves family of four homeless\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Kyler Rollins <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A family of four from Blairmont, West Bank Berbice, is seeking to rebuild their lives from scratch after a fire reduced their home to ashes in the wee hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire broke out shortly after 1 AM at the Lot 100 Zorg-En-Hoop, Blairmont residence of\u00a0Bishram\u00a0Jaglall, a pan floor attendant attached to\u00a0the Blairmont Estate.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27.png 800w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Jaglall\u00a0lived at the\u00a0wooden, one bedroom house\u00a0with his 26-year-old wife and their two children, ages 3 and 8.<br><br>At the time the fire started, the family was next door at the home of\u00a0Jaglall\u2019s\u00a0mother, whose house also suffered damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>Last night I went&nbsp;over deh. Nobody nah went home&nbsp;this over.&nbsp;Abbie deh in one&nbsp;one&nbsp;hammock deh, me and&nbsp;mecousin and me buddy, Abbie only&nbsp;hear&nbsp;something start&nbsp;buss&nbsp;up and one a me buddy seh look a house a burn up deh.&nbsp;Me seh&nbsp;you&nbsp;mad, a house nah burn. When I&nbsp;watch&nbsp;the whole inside was bare fire<\/strong>,\u201d Jaglall told NCN News. <br>The house relied solely on solar energy with the Guyana Fire Service confirming that the fire was electrical in nature stemming from a battery that came into contact with nearby combustible materials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blaze consumed everything in&nbsp;its path including household furnishings, appliances and cash that was being saved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chickens reared&nbsp;in&nbsp;the backyard also perished as a result of the intense heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>I had a&nbsp;lil&nbsp;saving of $200,000. That alone I had inside the house. All&nbsp;dah&nbsp;burn&nbsp;out. I have none right now. I&nbsp;have to work and a find a way to get&nbsp;lil&nbsp;help man make back one<\/strong>,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27.png 800w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-27-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Kyler Rollins A family of four from Blairmont, West Bank Berbice, is seeking to rebuild their lives from scratch after a fire reduced their home to ashes in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[488,1341,448,412,405,819],"class_list":["post-32925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-488","tag-blarimont","tag-ncn","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-region-five"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32925","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32940,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32925\/revisions\/32940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}