Priscilla Dikro, who occupies the chamber said she was shocked at the Monday morning incident.

Eyewitnesses who declined to speak on record said the fire started at midnight, but was quickly doused by the Ghana National Fire Service.

It is unclear what may have triggered the fire, but personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service and the Police Service have begun investigations into the cause.

Heaps of documents on several court cases, petitions and judicial administration items including office furniture were burnt.

The Volta Regional Fire Officer, DCFO Mawusi Sarpong, told Citi News her outfit was swift in responding to the incident, after they received a distress call from the court.

Following the incident, scheduled court cases have been adjourned until further notice.

This incident brings to the fore the importance of running a paperless court system where cases are not only documented electronically, but are saved in clouds for easy recovery.

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Television pictures showed flames leaping through barred windows of a single-storey wooden building.

The fire in a ward for bedridden patients was initially caused by an electrical fault in the building, a government statement said.

Thirty-one people were rescued during the incident, the General Prosecutor’s office said.

Four people were taken to hospital, according to Azerbaijan’s news agency APA.

The blaze, which broke out just before dawn, was fanned by strong winds. It took around three hours for fire fighters to extinguish it.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev visited the site of the fire, the Republican Narcological Centre, after it was extinguished, local media said.

The former Soviet nation has a chronic shortage of rehabilitation places for its 30,000 registered drug addicts.

Nearly 3,000 people applied for places at the centre in 2015 alone, and a new clinic with 250 places has recently been built.

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Victims who had their belongings burnt have began counting their losses.

Although the cause of the fire is not immediately known, the victims, mostly artisans had their belongings including vehicle spare parts and refrigerators all destroyed by the fire.

The incident according to some residents started at about 2:30 am.

One of the caterers at the school, Salamatu Issah, told Citi News they had suspended the feeding program until they get new utensils and foodstuff.

She appealed to the school feeding secretariat to come to their aid.

The area where the incident happened is a cluster of mechanic shops with containers situated very close to one another.

Fire officers say investigations have begun into the incident.

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The fire is the fourth at the Dome Central Market, and the second in less than two months.

[contextly_sidebar id=”vBskiDUIpZbzxpm62PIbKccNWqQfiE4v”]”This is the fourth time the market is in this situation and it is intentional. Information we have gathered is that, someone deliberately started the fire,” the MCE told Citi News.

She added that “we are collaborating, and I have made a formal complaint to the police. We are on course. We will get to the bottom of this.”

A day after the fire, traders were counting their losses running into thousands of thousands of cedis.

“My goods are worth over GHc 20,000 cedis. I buy things from Togo. I have lost about GHc 1,200. We took loans to establish our businesses,” some traders lamented to Citi News.

The fire, which started around 7: 40 pm, gutted 15 metal container shops, and destroyed other properties, though no casualties were recorded, according to the Fire Service.

Fire Service personnel arrived at the scene to douse a large chunk of the inferno, and it eventually took two fire tenders to bring the situation under control.

The Greater Accra Regional Commander of the Fire Service, DCFO Ebenezer Simpson, told Citi News his outfit would need time to establish the cause of the fire.

“Unless we finish extinguishing the fire thoroughly, we don’t want to rush in arriving at the cause of the fire. We need to do some overhauling, check out what goes on, the activities carried out at the places that have been severely charred, and we have to interrogate those who use that container and other things for us to arrive at what caused the fire.”

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The Wednesday night fire ravaged a few shops before fire fighters arrived at the scene.

[contextly_sidebar id=”She10eicrAW3im2qjKoUKjc10Vz1Ccgo”]Traders and passersby were seen helplessly capturing the devastation on their mobile phones, as they waited for the firefighters.

Fire Service personnel from the Ga East District of the Greater Accra Region, were at the scene later, to douse a large chunk of the inferno.

The fire, which started around 7: 40pm, gutted 15 metal container shops, and destroyed properties worth thousands of cedis. There were no casualties recorded.

It took two fire tenders to bring the situation under control.

Speaking to Citi News, the Greater Accra Regional Commander of the Fire Service, DCFO Ebenezer Simpson,  said swift action from his men prevented the fire from getting out of control.

He said they would need time to carry out a probe to establish the cause of the fire.

“Unless we finish extinguishing the fire thoroughly, we don’t want to rush in arriving at the cause of the fire. We need to do some overhauling, check out what goes on, the activities carried out at the places that have been severely charred, and we have to interrogate those who use that container and other things for us to arrive at what caused the fire.”

Market fires have become quite common in Ghana, with some major markets in the national and regional capitals, experiencing fire outbreaks more than once.

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The incident, which happened around 8:30 pm destroyed the belongings of students, who are mostly first years.

The cause of the fire is not yet known, but school authorities say are investigating the incident.

The headmaster of the school, Agyapong Ntra who confirmed the incident to Citi News said the affected students are sharing beds with their colleagues for now.

“There was a fire outbreak but it is currently under control. It was last night around 8.30 pm when students were at prep, some of them went out and saw smoke coming out of one of dormitories so they drew alarm and teachers together with students rushed to the scene. Others too called the Fire Service so they rushed to the scene,” he narrated.

“Everything in the room got burnt including government textbooks, chop boxes, trunks, and a few cedis.
46 students were affected so at the moment they are perching with their colleagues.”

He said the Member of Parliament for the area, the District Chief Executive and officials of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) have visited the scene to get first-hand information about the incident.

Mr Ntra is appealing to benevolent organizations to help the affected students.

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According to eyewitnesses, the bus from Accra reached a spot between Peki and Kpeve when the driver’s dashboard suddenly burst into flames.

The fire spread through the vehicle resulting in a stampede as passengers forced their way out to safety.

The passengers, who mostly had their luggage loaded in vehicle’s boot, made frantic efforts to douse the fire but were unsuccessful.

They all watched in despair as the bus with Registration number GC 5099 was completely razed by the inferno.

“Passengers on board did everything possible to quench the fire by throwing sand onto the bus but could not stop it” an eyewitness recounted.

None of the occupants of the bus suffered any injuries but Citi News understands that all luggage and other items on the bus were lost in the fire.

It is unclear what might have caused the fire but a source at the State Transport Company, who confirmed the incident to Citi News, said their outfit would soon officially inform the public on the details.

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The fire reportedly started at 5:00 am, and swept through three shops and three warehouses filled with cosmetic and rubber products.

Several secondhand clothes meant for sale were also destroyed.

The affected traders who are counting their losses, say they also lost money to the fire.

It is unclear what caused the fire, but eyewitnesses told Citi News they suspect it emanated from a nearby refuse dump site where the refuse were being burnt.

The Deputy Fire Officer, Mawusi Sarpong, who told Citi News her team rushed into to douse the fire, said investigators are on the ground gathering information to determine the cause of the fire.

“We spoke to a lady around who told us that the fire started from the dustbin nearby. But our fire investigators are on the ground to ascertain that and the way forward” she said.

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The company deals in all brands of new motorcycles, tricycles and spare parts in Tamale.

The Sales Manager, Jack Ke, said about 40 motorcycles and an unspecified quantity of spare parts were burnt.

He expressed his sadness about the incident, and raised doubts about whether the company’s insurance would be able to cover the losses.

He also thanked residents of the area for preventing the fire from spreading to nearby properties, thereby limiting the extent of the damage.

The cause of the fire is yet to be established, but personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) have begun investigations.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the fire was the deadliest in the city for at least 25 years. The victims include a one-year-old child, he added.

The cause of the fire, on Prospect Avenue, near Fordham University and the Bronx Zoo, is not yet clear.

More than 160 firefighters helped bring the blaze under control.

Officials said the first alarm sounded at the five-storey building at about 19:00 local time (00:00 GMT).

Speaking at the scene, Mr De Blasio said a nearby school had been set up to shelter those evacuated from the building.

The city is currently experiencing bitterly cold weather.

“We’re here at the scene of an unspeakable tragedy,” Mr De Blasio said.

“Tonight, here in the Bronx there are families that have been torn apart. This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century. Based on the information we have now, this will rank as one as the worst losses of life to a fire in many, many years.”

He said the fire service had managed to rescue at least 12 people from the building.

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, standing alongside the mayor, described the fire as a “tragedy… without question historic in its magnitude”.

“People died on various floors of the apartment [block], ranging in age from one to over 50,” he told reporters.

“In a department that is surely no stranger to tragedy, we’re shocked by the lives lost.”

Witness Rafael Gonzalez, who lives in a building across the street, told WCBS-TV he was woken by the smell of smoke and then saw some people using a fire escape of the burning building as the fire raged.

The building contains more than 20 flats and was built just over 100 years ago, the New York Times reported.

The Associated Press said the fire was the deadliest in New York – excluding the 9/11 attacks – since 87 people died at a social club in the Bronx in 1990.

Earlier this month, a mother and her three children died in a fire at their home in Brooklyn, New York.

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