The Dome Market in Accra, has been gutted by fire.<\/p>\n
The Wednesday night fire ravaged a few shops before fire fighters arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”She10eicrAW3im2qjKoUKjc10Vz1Ccgo”]Traders and passersby were seen helplessly capturing the devastation on their mobile phones, as they waited for the firefighters.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The fire, which started around 7: 40pm, gutted 15 metal container shops, and destroyed properties worth thousands of cedis. There were no casualties recorded.<\/p>\n
It took two fire tenders to bring the situation under control.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Greater Accra Regional Commander of the Fire Service, DCFO Ebenezer Simpson,\u00a0 said swift action from his men prevented the fire from getting out of control.<\/p>\n He said they would need time to carry out a probe to establish the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n “Unless we finish\u00a0extinguishing the fire thoroughly, we don\u2019t 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.”<\/p>\n Market fires have become quite common in Ghana, with some major markets in the national and regional capitals, experiencing fire outbreaks more than once.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dome Market in Accra, has been gutted by fire. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":397038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[10160,412,641,3],"yoast_head":"\n