About 400 shops are said to have been burnt to the ground in the fire that engulfed Odawna market near the Kwame Nkrumah interchange.
According to eyewitnesses, the fire started about 1 am at dawn but the slow response of the fire service team to the call, was what escalated situations.
This, they said, could have saved some shops from being gutted by the fire.
As at the time of this report, the cause of fire is still unknown, but as many as 8 fire tenders were reportedly deployed to the scene to help control the fire.
The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service, Ellis Robinson Okoe, said; “The fire was so intensive that we had to bring 8 of our appliances here to fight the fire. As I speak to you now, we have been able to bring it under control. We have metal containers inside with fire and they are locked so our men are breaking and at the same time fighting the fire”.
Refuting claims that the fire trucks that came to the scene were without water, the GNFS P.R.O said “The condition in which they are they will always blame fire service. As I speak to you, aside from our fire tenders, police, prisons, national security, air force, they all came with water tankers so I don’t know what they are talking about”.
