Some lawyers and other persons renting Lot 9 Croal Street are counting their losses following an early morning fire which destroyed the upper storey of the property.The fire allegedly started shortly after 02:00 hours yesterday, at the back of the building where a visually impaired elderly woman resided.? She was subsequently taken to the Brickdam Police Station.One lawyer, Sandra Kurtzious, said that for years this woman had been living in an apartment at the back of the building with her husband who has since died.She said that as the woman progressed in age she became more dangerous to the property because some days the people in the building would smell kerosene from the woman’s stove. The building was owned by the late Pearlene Roach. When Ms Roach died her daughter assumed proprietorship and when the daughter died her husband, Fred Chase,Cheap NFL Jerseys, continued to monitor the building.Another lawyer said that with the building being old and wooden there was always the fear.Ms Kurtzious said that according to a neighbour who lives next door, he heard the old woman crying to be let out of the building,Wholesale China Jerseys, suggesting that whatever she had started could not be contained. The building housed a number of law offices on the upper storey and Atlantic Shipping Company on the lower flat.Speaking with this newspaper,Wholesale Jerseys USA, attorney-at-law Ronald Burch-Smith said that his chambers lost a quantity of legal documents and office furniture, among other things.? His colleagues, Ms Kurtzious, Mark Waldron and Godfrey Statia, all members of a partnership, said that they have been provided with temporary accommodation with some colleagues. Most of them were able to recover files for clients. They were unable to attend court and had to send apologies to the courts and to seek postponements.Amanda Trehane,NHL Jerseys Authentic, proprietrix of Atlantic Shipping Company,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, said that she was informed about the fire through a telephone call from a friend.Trehane estimated her losses at over $2.5M including four desktop computers,Cheap Jerseys From China, a plasma television, a brand new refrigerator and other electrical items that were in the building at the time the fire broke out. Also damaged were a quantity of shoes and clothing.She added that the majority of the items that were in the building at the time were damaged by water.The Guyana Fire Service said that investigations were ongoing.