Broken Fire Service Water tender fixed after attending to fire scenes with Okada

The broken-down Fanteakwa Fire Service Water tender at Begoro District Station has been hurriedly fixed 24 hours after the service was heavily criticized for attending to a fire outbreak in 24 hours in a taxi, with an extinguisher in okada.

The Water tender serving the entire Fanteakwa district had broken down for about six(6) weeks but was fixed within 24 hours after Adamu Osman house was burnt to ashes at 'Begoro Mission mu' on Friday, May 28, 2021.

Speaking to the press this morning at Begoro by the Operations officer of Fanteakwa North District, FOO, Mr Raymond Owusu, explained, that the water tender was fixed on Friday 28, May 2021, by the Regional mechanics of the National Fire Service.

He added that this has been the system of the institution (GNFS) and the District officers are not permitted to acquire the services of a roadside mechanics, but stressed that the only option to fix the non-functional water tender is to write to the regional Fire Service headquarters to secure the services of the mechanics to attend to it.

Mr Owusu narrated that the incident was not beyond his men and through the help of the residents, they were able to bring the situation under control, even though, the fire did not spread to other buildings but the owner lost everything, he opined.

The District Fire Operations Officer, Mr Raymond Owusu, has disclosed that the cause of the fire was a result of suspected gas leakage.

 Background

 
Residents in Akyem Begoro in the Fanteakwa North District of the Eastern Region of Ghana were shocked over the week when firefighters in the district arrived at the scene of a fire outbreak in Okada, and others in a taxi holding a fire extinguisher.

Fire gutted a single room house occupied by a family of four (4) but the Ghana National Fire responded very late to the scene in a strange manner.

The youth in the community mobilized to fight the fire fueled by the gas explosion with water and sand.

Later, a reinforcement team of fire service personnel arrived at the scene in a taxi with two extinguishers to fight the blazing fire which had already consumed the building and properties therein.

The family have since been displaced while the mother of two is however traumatized and on admission at Salvation Army Clinic at Begoro.

42-year-old Adamu Osmanu, a victim said, they have lost everything and that the dresses wearing the family before the incident are the only things left for them.

Meanwhile, residents in Akyem Begoro have expressed their disgust at the manner in which the fire service appeared at the scene helpless.

William Ofori Akwaboa Eastern Regional Correspondent