On Sunday, May 21, about ten businesses containing phone accessories worth millions of cedis were destroyed by fire at Tip-Toe lane, near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in the national capital.
The fire, which began about 2 p.m., was extinguished by a joint team of fire tenders from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) Abelenkpe and Ministries branches.
There were no casualties, and the cause of the fire is yet unknown.
Kenser Manford, whose shop was completely destroyed, told Citi News that while firefighters arrived on time, they were unable to rescue their belongings.
“We actually heard that the fire started from the back, but we don’t know where it started from. By the time we realised, everything was gone. Even though, the firefighters were swift, the intensity of the fire took everything away.
“All we can boast of is the ones you can see on the ground, we took nothing. We leave it to the experts to determine the cause of the fire. It started around 10am, we are the biggest casualty, I’m sure it started for a very long time before it got to our shop,” he lamented.
Meanwhile, ADOII Alex Nartey of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) Public Relations Department encouraged the public not to jump to judgements when there is a fire outbreak.
“The cause of the fire is unknown yet, different people are saying different things, until we are done with investigations, we cannot pre-empt the cause of the fire. We had to rely on our men from the ministries and Abelenkpe fire stations to douse off the fire.
“How we operate, people don’t understand. When they come, and we are cooling-off other places for the fire from burning, then they will be giving instructions as to why we are not attending to the fire at their end as well. When our men arrive at fire scenes then they will be insulting them. It’s not nice, they should stop mocking our efforts. We make sure that if there are persons trapped, we try to rescue them, people should learn to understand how we work,” he advised.
