A fire outbreak ravaged several auto shops and a cold store yesterday on the Kamara-Mamprobi stretch in Accra.
The fire disaster is said to have started around 5:45 in the morning and lasted for about three hours before personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) were able to extinguish the fire at 8:45am.
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The official cause of the fire has not been communicated by the GNFS yet, however, an eye-witness believes the cause was from a faulty electrical system in one of the shops.
This faulty electrical system allegedly started the fire which spread to other shops on the stretch.
A similar narrative was disclosed by the Divisional Officer 3 in charge of operations at the Dansoman Fire station, William Sackey, who told Accra-based Channel One News that his team noticed that the there were electrical shocks from the main wire service close to the shops.
“So this morning around 5.45 am, we received a distress call that there was a fire at Kamara near the Apostolic Church. So our men were dispatched to the fire scene and on arrival, we observed that three containers were on fire amidst electrical shock from the main service wire.
“So quickly our men got to work and in the process, we had to call for backup from our Circle Fire Station to come and make additional pumps at the incident scene.”
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The officer also said his team had to request for police back-up because the crowd tried to hinder their work.
