A fire outbreak at an unlicensed ‘Gao Gao’ gasoline station in Teshie on Thursday, twentieth March, precipitated extreme harm, lowering a automobile and several other business outlets to ashes. The fireplace ignited whereas gallons of gasoline have been being offloaded.
Bystanders recounted how efforts to douse the flames with hearth extinguishers proved futile because the station’s operators struggled to make use of them. Fortuitously, the Ghana Nationwide Fireplace Service (GNFS) responded in time to forestall the flames from reaching the underground gasoline reservoir, averting a better disaster.
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Talking in an interview, ADO1 Alex King Nartey, the GNFS Public Relations Officer, revealed the staff encountered logistical challenges earlier than arriving on the scene:
“Our automobile has been out of fee for a while now. We needed to fall on our staff on the Commerce Honest, and it took them about 10 to fifteen minutes.”
When firefighters arrived, the fire had already spread beyond the vehicle and fuel station, endangering surrounding companies.
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“There are chains of shops, we needed to do effectively to include the hearth from spreading. We’ve got been in a position to put the scenario below management,” Nartey added.
Authorities are actually investigating the reason for the hearth and evaluating the hazards posed by unlawful gasoline stations within the space.
In a associated hearth incident reported by Pulse few weeks in the past, a devastating fire in Gyinyase, Kumasi, has claimed the lives of a nurse and her three children after they were trapped inside their home at dawn. Eyewitness, recognized as Kwabena Mensah, recounted the harrowing expertise while trying to rescue the victims. He revealed feeling helpless regardless of a number of efforts to avoid wasting the household.This morning, my spouse, who sells kenkey, awoke at daybreak to arrange her items.
She instantly screamed that kids have been burning. I rushed out and noticed the hearth raging close to the kitchen. I attempted to interrupt open the door, however as quickly because it opened, the fuel cylinder exploded.Mensah broke down in tears as he described listening to the trapped kids calling out his title for assist. Regardless of a number of makes an attempt by neighbours to power their approach in, the flames had already consumed the home, leaving no likelihood for survival.
