Page 21, Oct 22, 2008
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah, Sunyani.
FIRE gutted a plush bungalow at Agyei-Ano South in the Sunyani municipality last Saturday.
Property worth thousands of Ghana cedis was destroyed.
Some of the items destroyed by the fire included electrical appliances, cooking utensils and items of clothing.
Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service who took two hours to bring the fire under control, ran out of water within 30 minutes of arriving on the scene and had to go to Abesim for more water.
Residents of the neighbourhood told the Daily Graphic that they had first heard an explosion from the house before flames engulfed it.
The wife of the owner of the house, Maame Efua, managed to escape from the house during the fire outbreak. She was found weeping uncontrollably, while a tenant who had rushed to the house upon hearing of the fire outbreak had folded his arms in bewilderment.
The leader of the seven-member fire team, Station Officer John Ashong, said the cause of the fire would be known after analysis of evidence and information provided by occupants.
He said the municipality had only one fire tender and called for more fire tenders to be allocated to it
Mr Ashong called for the construction of fire hydrants in new residential areas in Sunyani to make water readily available to the GNFS in case of fire outbreaks.
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