The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service, Ellis Robinson Oko has come out to reveal the reason for their inability to douse the fire that razed down a building at the Makola Market on Monday.
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According to him, the lack of water caused the delay in the process of quenching the fire in the building. He said that there was no water flowing through the fire hydrant. He said the Fire Service is not to blame for the nonfunctioning water hydrants that made it difficult for them to douse the fire.
Speaking in an interview on Starr FM, Ellis Robinson Oko said that some state agencies, such as the Ghana Water Company, the Ghana Electricity Company, and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, are making it harder for them to combat the fire.
“We didn’t run out of water. The problem is all the fire hydrants didn’t have water in them so we had to rely on water from circle and Alajo. It’s the responsibility of the water company to manage the fire hydrants. We don’t manage fire hydrants”, he said.
“As at the time the fire happened, all the hydrants were not flowing. The water company didn’t tell us why they shut it yesterday. We couldn’t leave our duty to go ask Ghana Water Company why there was no water in our hydrants so we did what was required at the time and that’s what we did. t’s rather unfortunate that everyone is blaming us but let’s look at the situation on the ground before blaming the fire service,” he added.
This comes after some eyewitnesses and owners of the shops that got burnt on Monday morning expressed their frustration in the Ghana National Fire Service for their inability to quench the fire off promptly.
