Properties worth thousands of Ghana Cedis have been lost in a fire at Bantama in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region.
The fire is reported to have occurred at about midnight on Sunday, 2nd April 2023.
The fire razed five rooms on the first floor of the storey building.
According to the landlady of the house, Madam Alice Addai Kusi, she was asleep, and she was woken up suddenly by screams for help.
“I was sleeping when I heard someone shouting and saying the occupants of this house should wake up”.
“So I woke up and realised the fire had engulfed the place. One of my children drove to alert the fire service,” Madam Kusi explained.
She said, “When they [firefighters] arrived, the fire had spread.”
The Fire Operations Officer at the Komfo Anokye Fire station, ADOII Ben Aidoo Taylor, explained the situation.
“We had the information through our divisional control that fire had broken out in one of the buildings at Bantama High Street, and the vehicle moved straight to the place and found out that fire had indeed engulfed the second flat.”
He further noted that they were able to put out the fire.
ADOII Taylor, however, indicated that the cause of the fire is still under investigation and reports of the investigation will be revealed to the public when it is ready.
Meanwhile, the Kejetia Market in Kumasi was up in flames late afternoon of March 15, 2023.
The market, one of the largest and busiest in the West Africa sub-region, fell victim to the spate of market fires that have beset Ghana in the past few years.
