Grandma Saves Four Grandchildren

Four children escaped unhurt when the house, in which they were sleeping, caught fire on Sunday night while their mother was away fetching water.

Property worth over three million cedis was destroyed. Items the fire gutted included two sacks of sugar, two sacks of groundnuts, three bags of rice, one bag of gari, four boxes of biscuits, five packets of confectionery and roofing sheets.

The Ghana National Fire Service attributed the fire to a hurricane lamp being used in the room coming into contact with inflammable items like plastic containers.

Briefing the GNA Madam Yaa Dansowaa, grandmother of the children, who lives in a nearby house, said at about 3:00 am she was awakened by the scent of a smoke and noticed that it was coming out of her daughter's room

"I groped through the thick smoke and picked the children, who were fast asleep, one after the other."