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Regional news for Monday, February 1, 2021
Source: GNA
02/01/2021
The owner of the house said the fire started in a weaver’s hut near the house
A fire destroyed eight of the 15 rooms in a compound house in Balogu North, a suburb of Yendi in the Northern region, burning properties worth thousands of Ghana cedis
Some of the burnt items included; TVs, beds with mattresses, cash, furniture, dresses, refrigerators and other household appliances.
Homeowner Alhaji Inusah Abdulai, 46, told Ghana’s Yendi News Agency that the fire started from a weaver’s hut near the house in which they suspected was caused by small smokers.
He said that unfortunately some of the destroyed rooms were occupied by tenants, who traveled to Tamale over the weekend and therefore were not available to collect their property.
He said a member of the Pentecostal Church, who was returning from prayer, saw the fire and set off an alarm, which forced Mr. Inusah Sha-Aban, a teacher from the house to stand down. rush to Yendi’s office of the Ghana National Fire Service to brief staff about the blaze.
He said when Service personnel arrived with the fire offer, they were unable to access the house and it took them almost an hour to pass through other areas before they could to put out the fire.
Alhaji Sha-Aban expressed his gratitude to all who came to help them extinguish the fire with water and who were unsuccessful due to the prevailing Harmattan winds in the area before the arrival of firefighters from the Ghana.
He said the house has never experienced a fire since it was built in 2007.
Some of the people who helped put out the blaze turned to urban and rural planning officers to make sure people build their houses according to the plan in Yendi Town to create access roads to each house. .
They said that in most of the suburbs of Yendi County, there were no lanes making it difficult for firefighters during a fire.
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