Some irate youth in the Tafo Municipality on Thursday, November 19, 2020, attacked some fire service personnel dispatched to a fire scene in the area.
They accused the firefighters of arriving to the fire scene late.
One of the fire tender drivers from the Breman Fire Station sustained injuries.
The fire officers received a distress call to attend to a fire incident at a house located in the Tafo Municipality but were met by some irate mob who attacked them and damaged the engine of the fire tender.
The firefighters abandoned the tender and sought refuge at the Tafo Municipal Assembly building while the driver was also rushed to the Tafo Government Hospital for treatment.
Confirming the incident to Citi News, Ashanti Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Divisional Officer Grade III (DOIII) Desmond Ackah said the command had to call in additional tenders from the Manhyia and Komfo Anokye Fire stations to contain the raging inferno.
He indicated that all properties in the compound house which comprised fifteen bedrooms were destroyed due to delays caused as a result of the mob attack on the fire officers.
