Seventy-five (75) students of Koforidua Technical Senior High School (KOTECH) have been displaced by a fire outbreak that gutted four (4) rooms of the boy’s dormitory Monday night of November 14, 2022.
Eight(8) students were injured whilst escaping.
The fire outbreak started at about 11:30 pm when most of the students were sleeping. The fire burnt to ashes mattresses, provisions in trunks, uniforms, books, movies, and all other personal effects.
The wall of the affected rooms has deep cracks resulting from the devastation of the inferno.
According to the Principal of the school, Engineer Bernard Forson, 8 students suffered minor injuries of which they were sent to the hospital for treatment but have been treated and discharged Tuesday morning.
He appealed for urgent government intervention to reduce the impact it will have on children’s education.
The Principal however declined calls from the affected students to be vacated temporarily to go home having lost everything to the fire outbreak.
Member of Parliament for New Juaben North, Nana Adjei Boateng, Municipal Education Directorate officials, Fire Service personnel and NADMO officials all visited the school Tuesday morning.
MP Nana Adjei Boateng donated an amount of Ghc20,000 to immediately find some relief for the displaced students.
The New Juaben North Municipal Fire Commander, DFO Emmanuel Acquaye said upon receiving a call around 11:55 pm from the housemaster of the school, they swiftly mobilized their fire thunders to the scene and they were able to extinguish the fire from spreading to the entire rooms in the one storey dormitory block.
The fire service is investigating the cause of the fire.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
