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Dunkwa-on-Offin (C/R), Feb. 4, GNA – Fire on Monday afternoon razed two male dormitories; Owusu Bore and Aggrey halls, at Boa-Amponsem Senior High School at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality, displacing about 300 students. The inferno, causing extensive damage to property, took the intervention of the Municipal Fire …

Over 300 students of Oppong Memorial Senior High School at Kokofu in Ashanti Region have been displaced as fire ravaged the school’s boy’s dormitory on Thursday. There were no casualties, students were in class at the time of the blaze which, however, destroyed education materials and other property. The cause …

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has conducted fire safety audits on 4,349 old and new facilities in all the regions of the country. In addition to the fire audits, which began in January, last year, 9,997 educational campaigns were held in the regions as part of the service’s effort …

A 50-year-old man has been killed in a fire that ravaged a residential apartment at Achiase, in the Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti Region. The deceased, identified as Emmanuel Amega, believed to be mentally ill, allegedly set fire to the five-bedroom apartment of his 70-year-old father, Kwame Amega. Preliminary investigations …

A 12-bedroom storey building at Obuasi Mangoase was on Sunday burnt to ashes with residents unable to salvage anything from their apartment. One of the victims, Mohammed Daniyalu had only returned from overseas a day ago and had lost important items in the blaze. Narrating his ordeal to our sister station, …

A late night fire has consumed two halls at Accra Academy, displacing more than 100 students. The fire started around 7:00 p.m. at Alema and Halm Addo halls, at a time the students were attending prep in their classrooms, one of the school’s private security officials who blocked access to …

Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) director of legal and advisory services, Group Captain Albert Murove, on Saturday lost property worth thousands of dollars when his house in Ruwa was gutted by fire believed to have been caused by lightning. Ruwa Local Board engineers are still investigating the case to establish the …

A dormitory of the St Charles Minor Seminary Senior High School in Tamale went up in flames Monday afternoon destroying students’ personal belongings, a development that is likely to render the students homeless. The fire, which started at 12:29pm at the Cardinal Dery dormitory, completely burned eight of the nine …

Fire has ravaged 17 stores – 15 of them made of freight containers and the other two built from traditional materials – at Asokwa Tunsuom in the Bekwai municipality of the Ashanti Region. The inferno started around 6 p.m. on Monday, 6 January 2020 and destroyed properties worth thousands of …

An anti-bushfire taskforce has been formed in Ho to help check the occurrence of destructive fires in the Municipality. The Municipal Anti-bushfire Task Force, under Mr Prosper Pi-Bansah, Ho Municipal Chief Executive, is made up of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service, the Ghana Police Service, the Military, the …