Students of Buipe Senior High School in the Savannah region have been asked to go home after they lost all their personal belongings in a fire that burnt down their dormitory, Monday, February 3, 2020.
Mr. Kanzoni Donald, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Savannah region in a release said the decision has become necessary because both students and the school have lost almost all academic and personal items.
Although the cause of the fire is not readily known, it allegedly started from the girls’ dormitory around 7am Monday while students were in class and burnt down the structure.
Authorities say students could have salvaged some of their property but the fire could not be controlled in time because of the Ghana National Fire Service’s delay in reaching the site as a result of breakdown of the fire tender in the community.
Though none of the students sustained any injury, sources of information gathered indicates that unlike the recent fire outbreak at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport company’s truck parking lodge that was put out by personnel from the Damongo Fire Station, there was no such intervention this time around resulting in the extensive damage.
Source: mybrytfmonline