The Republic of Ghana has received it's first sad news in the year 2023, as a report of a deadly fire-attack has been reported in Sunyani, a city and the capital town of the Bono Region.
The report, which was captured on myjoyonline.com states that, "Fire has razed down a 14-bedroom apartment in a town call Odomase, in the Sunyani West Municipal capital". The destroyed many personal belongings and property running into thousands of Ghana cedis".
The report revealed further that, the cause of the fire is yet to be known; and although there were no casualties in the fire attack, everything in the said apartment go burnt to ashes.
According to myjoyonline.com, "The Assistant Divisional Officer Grade Two (ADOII) Kwame Adomako, the Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Bono Regional Command of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the fire started around 20:00 hours on Thursday January 5, 2023".
ADOII Kwame Adomako further revealed that, people around the neighbourhood were able to rescue the only woman in one of the apartments when the fire started.
According to Mr. Adomako, "Unfortunately, when the personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), reached the fire scene, the fire had already assumed a dangerous dimension".
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), in their year 2022 report, has revealed, that fire destruction in Ghana "was from a total of 3, 678 fire outbreaks recorded nationwide for the first six months as compared to the previous year's (2021) figure of 3,307 cases.
The fire out-breaks, has incurred huge losses in terms of property damage and innocent lives. This according to the Fire Services is a great subject of concern to all.
The Fire Service report in January 2022 recorded a total of 1,090 fires; in February: 762, March: 551,
April: 470, May: 463, and in June 2022: 342 fires outbreaks.
A report by ghanabusinessnews states that; "Assistant Chief Fire Officer (ACFO) Timothy Osafo-Affum, The Head of Public Relations, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview that the increase was attributable to high incidents of domestic and bush fires during the harmattan season".
Mr. Osafo-Affum added that, despite the increase, there had been a month-on-month reduction in fire incidents recorded.
He added that, “Fire is a dangerous master. Therefore, if you are not 18 years old do not try your hands on it. It is better to lose property than your life because once there is life, there is hope”.
The majority of fire outbreaks, according to Mr. Osafo-Affum, were preventable if the public adhered to fire safety practices, and urged citizens to collaborate with the Service in ensuring that lives and properties were saved during fire disasters".
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