Debe family pleads for help

Radesh, his wife Cindy (daughter of popular chutney singer Molly Ramcharan) and their children Sapna and Suraj were left homeless after the fire engulfed their Lalbeharry Trace home last Tuesday.

Radesh, a salesman with Trinidad Hose Ltd, recalled his daughter calling him and saying: “Dad, the house on fire. Call the fire brigade”. The incident happened at 10 am. The family lived in a two-storey concrete house with four bedrooms.

Before the fire started, Sapna related that she was asleep when the scent of smoke awoke her. She tried to open the door but it was jammed as part of the ceiling had collapsed. She eventually found an exit and escaped the fire.

Her grandmother Molly Ramcharan yesterday thanked God for saving her grandchild.

Nicholas Lall, a next door neighbour who witnessed the incident and called the fire service, said: “I was smelling plastic burning.

The little daughter took a hose and tried to out the fire”.

Radesh was still a state of shock yesterday.

“I sacrificed day and night and look what has happened,” he said.

He added that his daughter had a panic attack and had to be rushed to hospital following the fire. The family is now staying with his wife’s sister in an apartment she rents in Batchiya Village, Penal.

Anyone willing to help can contact the family at 620-4038 or 777-7679.