Fire breaks out at Old Tema station

Accra, Nov. 11, GNA - But for the timely intervention of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), a fire outbreak at an auto-electrical workshop on Friday night would have raised the Old Tema Station in Accra which now houses Ho, Kpando and Koforidua lorry terminals to the ground. The fire started around 2245 hours with heavy plume of smoke engulfing adjoining structures, mostly wooden kiosks, which served as ticketing offices for the various commuter destinations.

However, fire-fighters from the Makola Market Fire Station responded swiftly to the distress call by an eyewitness and were able to put out the blaze in about 55 minutes.

Some valuable property was destroyed but there was no death or injury.

The eyewitness, one Kwaku Frank, a Camera seller at the station, told the Ghana News Agency, that he had just returned from a trip and was chatting with her mother when he noticed smoke coming out of one of the wooden structures behind the Accra-Koforidua GPRTU office. He said he raised an alarm to wake up people sleeping in other kiosks closer to the auto-workshop and later used his mobile phone to make a distress call to the Police Information room, which redirected the call to the Fire Service.

Mr Samuel Aryee, Station Officer at the Makola Fire Station, said the immediate cause of the fire was not known and that his outfit would investigate the incident.