The broken down Water tender at Begoro Fire Service Station has been hurriedly fixed 24 hours after the service was heavily criticized for attending to fire outbreak in taxi and with extinguishers.
Residents in Akyem Begoro in the Fanteakwa North District in Eastern Region were shocked on Thursday when fire fighters in the district arrived at the scene of fire outbreak in a taxi holding a fire extinguisher.
Fire gutted a single room house occupied by a family of four (4) but the Ghana National Fire responded very late to the scene in strange manner.
The fire fighters first came to the scene on motorbike but were helpless.
The youth in the community mobilized to fight the fire fueled by gas explosion with water and sand.
Later, a reinforcement team of fire service personnel arrived at the scene in a taxi with two extinguishers to fight the blazing fire which had already consumed the building and properties therein.
About Ghc3,300 cash, clothes, household properties, student books, among others were all burnt.
The fire was allegedly caused by gas leakage.
The family have since been displaced while the mother of two is however traumatized and on admission at Salvation Army Clinic at Begoro.
42 year old Adamu Osmanu, a victim said, they have lost everything and that the dresses wearing the family before the incident are the only things left for them.
He appealed for support from the general public .
Meanwhile residents in Akyem Begoro have expressed their disgust on the manner in which the fire service appeared at the scene helpless.
The Water tender serving the entire Fanteakwa district had broken down for six(6) weeks.
Mybrytfmonline.com visit to the Begoro Fire Station Friday noted that the grounded water tender has been hurriedly repaired after the debacle.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
