GNFS, Motorway Fire Station - Tema

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FIRE CONSUMES THREE WOODEN STRUCTURES AT GBETSELI SAMCO ON WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19, 2022.

A distress call was made to the motorway Fire Station on Wednesday January 19, 2022 at 1432 hours at Gbetseli Samco.

Our men were dispatched immediately to the scene. Upon arriving at the scene at 1457 hours, it was observed that fire involved three wooden structures.

The fire which was met at its fully developed stage and had involved three (3) wooden structures used for dwelling purpose. Fire was brought under control at 1505 hours and finally extinguished at 1514 hours.
The three structures were totally burnt. No casualty was recorded.
Preliminary findings suggests the cause of fire to be burning of rubbish unattended to.

Personnel of Ghana National Fire Service engaged members of the community on safety practices to prevent undesired fires. They also advised the public to call Fire Service on time on 112/192 any time there is fire outbreak for prompt response.

Filed by OIC Safety / PRO:
Motorway Fire Station

TWO (2) PERISH IN A GORY ACCIDENT ON THE TEMA - MOTORWAY

Two (2) persons traveling from Tema to Accra met their untimely death on the Tema – Accra Motorway opposite Samara Company Limited (SASSO GH.) on Wednesday January 19, 2022.

The Motorway Command of the Ghana National Fire Service received the distress accident call at 0531hrs.
On arrived at the accident scene at 0552hrs it was realized that, the accident involved three (3) vehicles. A Honda CRV with registration number GR 3730 – 10, Sino Tipper Truck with registration number GN 6708 -21 and Opel Astra with registration number GW 5819 – 10.

The first impact of the accident which was between the Sino Tipper Truck and the Honda CRV which were both heading toward Accra saw the Tipper Truck loaded with sand veer off its lane, collided with the Opel Astra which was heading towards Tema from Accra and fell on the engine compartment and near side leaving all two (2) onboard dead.
Two (2) casualties were sent to the Tema General Hospital by men of the Ghana Police Service before personnel of the Fire Service arrived.

The two trapped lifeless persons in the Opel Astra were however extricated by the Fire Service Personnel and handed them over to the MTTD of the Police Service.

The Honda CRV suffered some partial damage on the near side, the Sino Tipper truck suffered some partial damage on its head compartment and bucket whilst the Opel Astra suffered total damage on its near side and the engine compartment. The cause of the accident is not readily known.

Filed by OIC Safety / PRO
Motorway Fire Station

HYUNDAI SONATA BURNS TO ASHES ON THE TEMA-ACCRA MOTORWAY
A telephone call was made to the Motorway Fire Station at 0750 hours on Monday, January 17, 2022 reporting on a fire call on the Tema – Accra motorway near Axel Weigh Bridge.

The duty Crew responded swiftly to the fire call and upon arriving at the fire scene at 0754 hours, the vehicle was totally burnt. The vehicle identified to be a Hyundai Sonata with registration number (GT 3446 - 21).

The extent of damage suggests that, the vehicle has been on fire for a long time before the call was made to the Fire Service.

We urge the general public to keep contacts of the Fire Service and reach out to the Service in times like this.

National Emergency Lines
112 / 192
029 934 0998

Motorway Fire Station
029 170 2011
029 170 2097

Filed by:
Rommel Oblitey Otoo
ADOII
OIC Safety / PRO

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BUSH FIRE PREVENTION, A CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY GHANAIAN

The Central Regional Commander ACFO I John Amarlai Amartey has challenged the people of the Central Region to join the fight against indiscriminate bush burning to safeguard the environment.

He said that burning destroys the ecosystem, negatively affects food security, air and water quality, long term soil infertility, causes the State to loss foreign exchange as important economic places (tourism), fauna (wildlife species) and flora (economic trees) species are lost and also the livelihoods of a section of the populace especially, those who heavily rely on the natural vegetation for farming and other agricultural activities.

ACFO I Amartey stated that PNDCL 229, (Acts 1990) was enacted to deal with individuals who engage in indiscriminate bush burning. To this end, the Command is very much poised to enforce this law to the latter.

He then advised the residents of Central Region to be highly responsive to this call by stopping all activities that culminate into destructive bush fires now that the harmattan is here with us.

ACFO I John Amartey said activities such as on-farm cooking, charcoal burning, game hunting, honey hunting, palm wine tapping, etc, must strictly be avoided to avert the menace of bush burning.

He intimated further that the reason for this timeous bush fire prevention call is also to avert the negative impact these bush burning tend to have on the economy (the State loses 3% of its GDP to bushfire destructions annually) and ecosystem (irregular rainfall pattern, rise in atmospheric temperature, rampant bushfires, etc) at large.

He however, reminded farmers to create farm belts around their farms, engage the services of Fire Volunteers when clearing and preparing their farming lands, creating fire belts as well as burning their farms.

ACFO I John Amarlai Amartey admonished the farmers to practice early or controlled burning before the onset of the dry season and that they should be present to monitor the burning activity.

He also advised those who clear their lands for construction and farming purposes to either use weedicides, modern machine weeding technology or hire labour/Fire Volunteers to do it for them instead of burning.

He again urged anyone who for any reason would want to burn the bush to contact the nearby Fire Volunteers and Station for guidance and clearance.

Filed by PRO
Central Region