The eight-story building opposite Ghana’s National Theatre was nearly engulfed by fire after its signage caught fire bringing activities at the Centre to a standstill.

Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank, Daniel Asiedu, one of the occupants of the building told Citi News that the fire couldn’t destroy anything within the building.

“The damage is very minimal, it didn’t affect anything inside. The fire service were very swift, when they were called within five minutes they were here and they put out the fire externally and internally nothing has affected us so you can see that the banking hall has opened and we are working well. I think we have to commend the Fire Service for that swift response,” he added.

The timely intervention of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) prevented the facility from totally being ravaged.

Although the fire affected the signage of the centre, it could not spread to other parts of the building because of the prompt response of the Fire Service.

Mr. Asiedu said “it was nothing serious; we just had a small fire incident at the outer part of the building. There is a signage which carries the Accra Financial Centre and that is what caught fire.”

Earlier, the Regional Commander for the Greater Accra GNFS, Deputy Chief Fire Officer Ebenezer Simpson told Citi News that the cause of the fire could be attributed to an electrical fault.

“It didn’t affect any property inside. Also, nobody was hurt because we managed to get everyone out of the building,” Chief Fire Officer Simpson added.

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The fire which affected the signage of the centre could not extend to other parts of the building following a prompt response by the GNFS which quickly deployed a team to the place.

Though the cause of the fire is not yet known, the Regional Commander for Greater Accra, Deputy Chief Fire Officer Ebenezer Simpson, said it could be as a result of an electrical fault.

The fire started at 6:10am on Saturday from one of the signage on the eight-storey building.

Mr. Smpson told Citi News’ Zoe Abu Baido that the security personnel on duty at the centre attempted controlling the fire but were unsuccessful and thus called on the fire service.

He said it took his men few minutes to get to the scene adding that they managed to put the fire under control.

“It didn’t affect any property inside. Also, nobody was hurt because we managed to get everyone out of the building,” Chief Fire Officer Simpson added.

This comes to three the number of fire incidents recorded in the country in the last few days.

A gas explosion at La in the Greater Accra claimed about six lives while scores of others were injured.

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