{"id":361236,"date":"2017-10-12T06:44:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=361236"},"modified":"2017-10-12T06:44:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:44:01","slug":"fire-guts-house-near-gas-station-at-mankessim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/fire-guts-house-near-gas-station-at-mankessim\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts house near gas station at Mankessim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the dawn of Wednesday, fire gutted a household at Mankessim in the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports had suggested that there was a gas explosion at a nearby filling station, but checks by<strong> Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Joseph Ackon-Mensah at the fire service revealed that, the fire outbreak was due to the negligence of a resident in a household near the said filling station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361244\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire.jpg\" alt=\"fire\" width=\"253\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the firefighter at the site said, \u201cThe distress call we received said the First Allied filling station was in flames, so we rushed here. But when we got here, that wasn\u2019t the case. Instead, someone in that nearby house forgot to turn off the gas after using it. That caused the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corroborating the fire fighter\u2019s account on the fire outbreak, the resident, who reportedly forgot to turn off the oven, said she \u201cwanted to quickly pick up her phone and return, but ended up staying longer. On her return, the flames were burning \u201cuncontrollably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361245\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire1.jpg\" alt=\"fire1\" width=\"253\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fire service personnel were however quick in responding to distress calls. Thus, they were able to put out the fire in time.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>There are mounting fears over\u00a0the siting of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) filling stations in the country, following Saturday&#8217;s explosion at the Atomic Junction which claimed <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/08\/atomic-gas-explosion-death-toll-now-7-information-ministry\/\"><strong>seven lives<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and injured about 132 others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361246\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire2.jpg\" alt=\"fire2\" width=\"253\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concerns have been raised from some sections of the public about the construction of gas and petrol stations in residential areas, with pressure group Occupy Ghana, calling for a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/10\/ban-on-site-dispensing-of-gas-occupyghana-demands\/\"><strong>temporary ban<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>on on-site dispensing of gas.<\/p>\n<p>The LPG Marketers&#8217; Association has <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/11\/our-outlets-are-not-death-traps-lpg-marketers\/\"><strong>dismissed these worries<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, stating that their outlets had put in the requisite safety measures in place to ensure that incidents like Saturday&#8217;s don&#8217;t recur.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-361247\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/fire3.jpg\" alt=\"fire3\" width=\"253\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have, on our own as part of the safety standards created what we call the electric discharge pumps. So at most of our outlets, the Bulk Road Vehicle (BRV) trucks do not discharge gas using their own engines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are electric discharge pumps where when the BRV comes, the pumps are fitted onto them and the discharge is done. It\u2019s quite unfortunate that our outlet at the explosion site wasn\u2019t using that particular discharge\u00a0pump at the time of the explosion. On issues of safety, in respect of the discharge of the BRV, we have directed our members to use the electric pump system. If you visit any of our outlets, that\u2019s the system that they are using, most of them are using it,\u201d the\u00a0Public Relations Officer of\u00a0the Association, Kwame Owiredu told <strong>Citi News.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marie-Franz Fordjoe\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the dawn of Wednesday, fire gutted a household at Mankessim in the Central Region. 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