Eight automobiles together with a gas tanker acquired burnt utterly when a gas station caught hearth at Baamire within the Techiman municipality of the Bono East Area.
Studies gathered signifies that the incident occurred when the gas tanker was discharging gas on the station on Friday when it caught hearth within the course of.
The automobiles ravaged by the fireplace contains, two buses, 5 matrix automobiles, and a gas tanker which was discharging the gas on the time.
Talking to the media on Monday, the Deputy Public Relations officer of the Ghana Nationwide Fireplace Service, ADOI Alex King Nartey, stated the Techiman hearth station acquired a misery name round 7pm on that fateful day however their hearth tender was out of Service, including that they needed to fall on Nkoranza hearth station which took some hours earlier than arriving on the scene.
ADOI King Nartey added that the fireplace may have been introduced underneath management ought to the Techiman hearth station had a hearth tender.
He acknowledged that earlier than their personnel may arrive, the fireplace had engulfed the entire place, destroying every thing on website.
He additionally talked about that a few of their personnel have been attacked by residents across the neighborhood who pelted them with stones which disrupted their operations.
Furthermore, he referred to as on the folks to desist from such negative acts indicating that the shortage of retooling of the service with new hearth tenders was massively affecting their operations.
In response to him there was no casualty.
He defined that the majority of their hearth tenders had outlived their usefulness, including that since 2011 authorities was but to retool the service with new hearth tenders.
FROM DANIEL DZIRASAH, TECHIMAN
