People busily battling the fire
There was fear and panic among residents of Teshie Estate in the Ledzokuku Krowor Municipality (LEKMA) of the Greater Accra Region yesterday when two houses in the area caught fire.
According to eyewitnesses, the fire started at about 11:30pm from a wooden structure and spread to other rooms.
Though the actual cause of the fire is still unknown, residents claimed the fire was caused by gas leakage in one of the rooms.
It took the swift intervention of officials of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to douse the fire to stop it from spreading to nearby houses.
It took the fire personnel a little over 45 minutes to put out the fire due to the wooden structure in front of the house and a gas cylinder, which was burning ferociously in one of the rooms.
Items in one of the rooms were completely burnt but a few items were retrieved from the other.
The fire also gutted seven prepaid metres on an electrical pole, thereby cutting power to about 10 households.
No casualties were recorded as a woman and her two daughters who occupied one of the rooms managed to escape the fire while the occupant of the other room had travelled the day before the fire.
Akua Emmanuella, an eyewitness, who spoke to DAILY GUIDE said, “I came here to buy fried egg and bread when I heard someone complaining of smoke from a room. All of a sudden the structures caught fire and the occupants made frantic efforts to escape the raging fire. The door to one of the rooms was locked and the children were trapped inside the room. A young man knocked down the door before the young girls managed to escape. Everybody started calling the fire service officials.”
DAILY GUIDE gathered that the occupant of the room, which was gutted by the fire, sells used clothes and lives with her two daughters.
She was said to have withdrawn an amount of GH?2,000.00 from the bank to spend on her two daughters, who had gained admission into a senior high school.
She was, however, unable to retrieve the money as she quickly ran out to save her life.
Efforts by the paper to contact the woman proved futile as she was nowhere to be found at the time the fire was being quenched.
By Gibril Abdul Razak