A devastated Bernadette Burae pictured inside the livingroom of her house in Clonard Village which was gutted by fire. Pic: Jim Campbell
A FATHER of a two-week old baby is recovering in hospital after he was forced to escape from his house when it went on fire on Sunday evening.
Harvey Ngona was showering at his home in Clonard Village when the electric shower began to malfunction. He also noticed a strange smell and when he went downstairs to the sitting room, he found the couch on fire.
He attempted to douse the flames but was not able to and the house quickly became engulfed in flame.
Unable to escape through the front door as the fire had caught on it and caused it to melt, he was forced to turn back through the sitting room to go out the back entrance but in doing so suffered from smoke inhalation.
Mr. Ngona’s partner Bernadette Burae spoke to this newspaper as she cleaned what belongings were left out of her home on Monday afternoon.
The Hungarian national said they were lucky no one had been killed, adding that her two-week old daughter Chloe would normally have been in the sitting room with her but they were out visiting friends at the time.
“If we had been home…I don’t know what would have happened.”
[Full story in this week’s paper]