Fire outbreak in Tema renders 30 homeless, destroys properties

Tema, June 11, GNA - About 40 residents in Tema Community One, Site One, were on Wednesday night rendered homeless and all belongings burnt when fire gutted their rooms. There was no casualty and it took firemen from Tema one hour to bring the fire under control.

When the GNA got to the scene on Thursday morning victims were seen rummaging through the debris to retrieve some items but there was none as everything was burnt into ash. The fire had caused cracks in the adjoining houses and the occupants had engaged the services of carpenters to fix their windows and doors which got burnt.

None of the victims or neighbours could tell the cause of the fire but information has it that one of them lit a candle and placed it close to a gas cylinder which was probably leaking. An eye witness told the GNA that accessibility to the scene became difficult so in confusion a portion of a wall around the Padmore School was pulled down.

Mr Prince Anaglatey, Tema Regional Fire Service Public Relations Officer, said firemen used two fire tenders and one tanker to extinguish the fire and it took one hour. The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Robert Kempes Ofosuware, Tema Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police Augustine Gyening and Mr Samuel Evans Ashong Narh, MP for Tema East constituency, have visited the scene. GNA