GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – Fire destroyed two buildings at the University of Guyana (UG) on Tuesday night but officials said that classes would resume normal on Wednesday.

UG Vice Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi, who was at the scene, commended the Guyana Fire Service (GFC) for doing a “fantastic job” at containing the blaze, but he complained that the fire hydrants at the campus were not in working order.

“The fire hydrants are not working and we are lucky to have a water pump close to here and that is where the fire service was able to get water to operate their machine”, Opadeyi said.

Students said that the fire at the Natural Sciences Department may have have started in a storage area for chemicals in one of the buildings and the blaze destroyed one of the buildings which housed offices for lecturers.

Opadeyi said the fire will not affect examinations and the priority right now is to get assistance, including counseling, to be made available to the lecturers who would have lost their personal belongings in the The GFS said it would launch an investigation into the cause of the fire.