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Hundreds of female students of the Kwahu Ridge Senior High School at Obo in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region have been displaced after fire gutted the girls dormitory. The fire occurred Wednesday June 29, 2022 around 11:20am. The fire destroyed mattresses ,beds , trunks ,uniforms of students …

Two brothers have died after fire gutted their house at East Legon while they were asleep, 3News has reported. The victims, identified as Nana Amo, 8 and Nana Boadi, 5, could not escape from the room when the fire broke out. The uncle of the deceased boys, narrating the incident …

Fire has razed down a 10 bedroom compound house at Dwase-Praso in the Asante Akyem central in the Asante Region. The incident is said to have occurred on Saturday morning. The fire destroyed property worth thousands of  cedis as occupants had nothing to salvage. It took firefighters several hours to …

But for the timely intervention of an officer of the Ghana National Fire Service during an explosion of an ECG Transformer at the Nkrumah Flats at Larterbiokorshie, a different story would have been told on Monday, June 20. Apart from single-handedly fighting to douse the fire, the Officer, Assistant Division …

A fire incident in Lagos State has stalled the appeal trial of convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, at an Ikeja Special Offences Court. It was gathered that the inferno made it impossible for Evans and others to reach the court on Friday. The notorious kidnapper is facing trial …

For some infants in the Kumasi Metropolis, the fire and explosion recorded at a plastic water storage factory in Atonsu on Friday, has left them with a traumatic memory on their minds. This is visible in a video showing some kindergarten school children running helter-skelter for safety while a raging …

A polytank manufacturing company located at Atonsu near the Kumasi Shoe factory has been gutted by fire. Three people have so far sustained serious life-threatening injuries as a result of the explosion. According to residents, the fire incident happened on Friday morning when the gas tanker was discharging gas which …

A gas tank has caught fire at the premises of a shoe factory close to the Lobab International School at Atonsu Agogo in the Kumasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred on Friday, 17 June 2022, and caused thick acrid smoke in the area. Students of the Lobab …

Three children died in a fire in Wallacedene, Cape Town on Thursday morning. The City’s Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said crews were alerted shortly before 06:30 to informal structures on fire in Pietersen Road. He said: Crews from Kraaifontein and Brackenfell were dispatched, and it was just …

The Obuasi Fire tender accident recorded on June 6, 2022, has resulted in the death of a young firefighter, the Ghana National Fire Service has announced. Some officers who were responding to a distress call got involved in an accident. Five of them sustained serious injuries and were rushed to …