The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has confirmed that five 40-foot containers serving as an office complex at the Saglemi Housing Project site have been completely destroyed by fire. Fortunately, the edifices at the site remain unaffected.
Assistant Divisional Officer Grade One (ADO1), Alex King Nartey of the GNFS Public Affairs Department, disclosed that the fire, reported around 5 p.m. today, destroyed the contents of the containers. Despite the deployment of two fire tenders, it took firefighters approximately four hours to bring the blaze under control.
The GNFS has launched an investigation to determine the cause of the fire.
In a separate incident, a fire outbreak at Kwashieman destroyed over 50 wooden structures used for domestic purposes and a wooden container for commercial activities. The cause of this fire is also under investigation.
Firefighters are battling a blaze at Kwashieman near the N1, behind a fuel station. Efforts to contain the fire are ongoing.
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Speaking at the Service’s Nine Lessons and Carols Thanksgiving event in Accra, themed “Be an Agent of Peace,” Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Julius Kuunuor disclosed that the GNFS has recorded 5,596 fire outbreaks between January and November this year. This represents a 6.43% increase compared to the 5,258 cases recorded during the same period last year.
The rise in fire incidents has been attributed to factors such as harsh weather conditions, public non-compliance with fire safety measures, road traffic accidents, electrical faults, and gas leakages.
