{"id":313654,"date":"2017-04-25T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=313654"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T09:49:56","slug":"coconut-grove-didnt-have-smoke-detectors-fire-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/coconut-grove-didnt-have-smoke-detectors-fire-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Coconut Grove didn&#8217;t have smoke detectors &#8211; Fire Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana National Fire Service has said blame for the Saturday fire at\u00a0Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra, should be directed at the\u00a0management of Group Nduom.<\/p>\n<p>The offices of GN Bank, Gold Coast Securities,\u00a0Amansan TV and Business Television Africa, were all affected by the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/22\/fire-at-coconut-grove-hotel-brought-under-control\/\">fire<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0at the hotel, which the fire service said could have been avoided if some basic fire prevention systems were in place.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Deputy Public Relations Director of the Fire Service, Prince Billy Anaglatey, stressed that, &#8220;there was nothing put in place to protect the place in terms of fire safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Service has concluded\u00a0preliminary investigations into the fire, and Mr. Anaglatey noted that &#8220;they do not even have smoke detectors on their premises. That was how they didn\u2019t detect the fire in time\u2026 even the structure itself is supposed to have total suppression systems, sprinklers, but they did not have all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_304435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304435\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304435\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Billy-Anaglate-Fire-Service-3.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Billy Anaglatey\" width=\"630\" height=\"441\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Billy Anaglatey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;If they were to have those facilities installed within the premises, I think we would not have been talking about these fires now. These facilities would have automatically extinguished the fire at the time that the fire had started but there was nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nduom&#8217;s comments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The assertion from the fire service comes after the President of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, suggested that more urgency on the part of relevant state institutions could have lessened the damage caused by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>In <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/24\/coconut-grove-fire-extensive-damage-could-have-been-avoided-nduom\/\">a Facebook post<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Dr. Nduom urged the need for reforms to influence a change in attitude of these state institutions in the face of similar disasters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_261573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261573\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-261573\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3901-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, President of Groupe Nduom\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, President of Groupe Nduom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It took \u00a0personnel of\u00a0the Ghana National Fire Service and the Fire Department of the Ghana Air Force more than three hours to\u00a0contain the fire which started around 4.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Per the investigations so far, the cause of the fire has been narrowed to the TV station where it started from an electrical component.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana National Fire Service has said blame for the Saturday fire at\u00a0Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra, should be directed at the\u00a0management of Group Nduom. 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