{"id":279095,"date":"2016-12-23T11:14:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279095"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:14:35","slug":"no-water-in-hydrants-at-labadi-explosion-site-fire-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/no-water-in-hydrants-at-labadi-explosion-site-fire-service\/","title":{"rendered":"No water in hydrants at Labadi explosion site – Fire Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ghana Fire Service has revealed there was no water running through the fire hydrants around the site of the Labadi gas explosion on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, the Director of Public Affairs, Billy Anaglate said this forced the fire trucks to move all the way to Makola in Accra to refill the fire trucks to put the fire out.<\/p>\n

It ultimately took the fire service about four hours to bring the fire under control after arriving on the scene a few minute before 6pm.<\/p>\n

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The scene of the Labadi gas explosion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr. Anaglate hailed the fire firefighters effectiveness in keeping the fire under control despite the challenge with the hydrants and water supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the contingency plan we put in place, even with the biggest challenge of not having water readily available passing through the hydrant for firefighting meaning we even needed to move our vehicles, when they were exhausted off water, to travel all the way Makola to replenish\u2026 we were able to fight the fire, to extinguish it at that shortest possible time of even four hours or five hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were fire hydrants within the Trade Faire and around the area but water was not passing through, if you have a hydrant and water company has not released water to pass through it, there is no way you will be able to access it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added that the Fire Service had a hydrant recovery team\u00a0doing its best to keep track and “inspect and make sure they [the hydrants] are available but the next thing is for the water company to release water to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

No need for blame game<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) however accused the fire service of playing a blame game and picking on water providers as an easy target in the wake of the incident.<\/p>\n

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Also speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, the Head of Corporate Communications at the GWCL, Stanley Martey said,\u00a0\u201cit is not proper at this time to be laying blame and I think that it is high time the fire service stopped blaming the Ghana water company limited anytime they fail in their responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe softest area to blame is the Ghana Water Company limited and I think it is wrong. I think it is very bad. We have discussed this issue several times and the Fire Service is always quick to lay blame on water not being in the hydrant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Martey also questioned\u00a0why service resorted\u00a0to a hydrant in Makola when it had a hydrant at headquarters closer to the scene of the\u00a0fire.<\/p>\n

“The Ghana National fire service has a hydrant in this head office at the ring road and they are supposed to be fetching water on there all the time. Why are they saying they had to go all the way to Makola?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t think they are justified in giving that excuse and it is the easy way for them to do that all the time and I think it is very wrong,\u201d Mr. Martey asserted.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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