{"id":384259,"date":"2017-03-30T20:08:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/"},"modified":"2017-03-30T20:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:08:45","slug":"two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.3.9--><\/p>\n<p>Fire has razed a 33-seater luxury bus and a truck completely at the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) Thursday afternoon in what eyewitnesses say started off with an unexplained sound of explosion that came from one of the automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>Thick black smokes, spiraling skywards like an angry whirlwind from the burning school bus and a truck, attracted students, residents and passersby to the spine-chilling scene of the bonfire \u2013 the forecourt of the official residence of the school\u2019s principal. Helpless onlookers, mostly students, wailed with their hands over their heads as the red flames consumed the vehicles in a haste before firemen arrived to tame the wild fire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18229\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18229 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==\" data-lazy-original=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Distraught school authorities appeal for aid\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18229 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Distraught school authorities appeal for aid\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Distraught school authorities appeal for aid<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI had a call from the principal\u2019s daughter,\u201d said Mac-Anthony Atongo, a woodwork tutor at the school. \u201cI was at my workshop, close to the principal\u2019s house where the buses are parked and other cars. When she called me, I could hear the sound of a horn through the phone. I asked her what the noise was for. She said maybe somebody [was] inside the bus. Even from afar, I could see the wiper was moving. I said she should check because it was not normal. Before I realised, I just saw the smoke coming. I called my HOD to call the fire service. We came to use sand to [put out] the fire but we couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another bus was close to the burning vehicles. Mr. Atongo managed to salvage it after grabbing its keys from the principal\u2019s daughter and drove it to safety through the ballooning flames. The horror struck around 3:30pm when the students were taking their lunch on campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burnt vehicles are a huge loss to us- school authorities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the charred vehicles- the bus- is said to be among the means of transportation used for the organisation of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana and shared after the tournament by government in 2009 among some second-cycle institutions.<\/p>\n<p>And, according to the authorities of the school, many of the external co-curricular events the school had attended before the Thursday\u2019s tragedy could have been missed but for the availability of the now-gone bus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18228\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18228 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==\" data-lazy-original=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.20.27-PM.jpg\" alt=\"he late-noon horror attracted a huge crowd\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18228 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.20.27-PM.jpg\" alt=\"he late-noon horror attracted a huge crowd\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>he late-noon horror attracted a huge crowd<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe bus means a lot to the school and even to the community at which the school is sited. It\u2019s the bus that we used to go on our excursions and all that. And we have relied heavily on this particular bus for many of our errands in terms of bereavements of staff, members and relations. It is this bus that we have always relied on for these services. And as it is in this state now, unless the government comes to our aid immediately, then we have a long way to go in terms of means of transport,\u201d Abraham Yendemeh, a senior tutor, told newsmen as he coughed recurrently in the middle of the corrosive fumes springing out from the dying embers of the charred vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two tragedies in less than a year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Firemen had not established what might have led to the combustion as of the time newsmen were leaving the scene. But the firefighters, surrounded by a crowd of students, tutors and residents, could be heard asking questions to eyewitnesses whilst inspecting the scalded bodies of the vehicles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18227\" style=\"width: 1040px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18227 size-full\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==\" data-lazy-original=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.16.26-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Firemen fighting the flames.\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18227 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.16.26-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Firemen fighting the flames.\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Firemen fighting the flames.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the second major tragedy to have hit the institute in less than a year. In the middle of 2016, the roof on the school\u2019s Motor Vehicle Technology workshop was torn apart by a rainstorm. The storm flipped the roofing sheets over, threw them away from each other and relocated parts of the woodwork far across the Bolgatanga-Navrongo Highway.<\/p>\n<p>That disaster happened just when the students were preparing for the national practical tests of the Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) examinations. The school\u2019s principal, Thomas Amare, was as distraught after the 2016 sudden storm as he is devastated today after the Thursday\u2019s unexpected fire.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Fire has razed a 33-seater luxury bus and a truck completely at the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) Thursday afternoon in what eyewitnesses say started off with an unexplained sound of explosion that came from one of the automobiles. Thick black smokes, spiraling skywards like an angry whirlwind from the burning school bus and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; Fire has razed a 33-seater luxury bus and a truck completely at the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) Thursday afternoon in what eyewitnesses say started off with an unexplained sound of explosion that came from one of the automobiles. Thick black smokes, spiraling skywards like an angry whirlwind from the burning school bus and a [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-30T20:08:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":671,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ghanamma.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Business\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/\",\"name\":\"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ghanamma.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-03-30T20:08:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/30\\\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ghanamma.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ghanamma.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"&#13; Fire has razed a 33-seater luxury bus and a truck completely at the Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOTECH) Thursday afternoon in what eyewitnesses say started off with an unexplained sound of explosion that came from one of the automobiles. Thick black smokes, spiraling skywards like an angry whirlwind from the burning school bus and a [&hellip;]","twitter_image":"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute","datePublished":"2017-03-30T20:08:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/"},"wordCount":671,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg","articleSection":["Business"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/","name":"Two vehicles in flames at Bolga Technical Institute - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg","datePublished":"2017-03-30T20:08:45+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/03\/30\/two-vehicles-in-flames-at-bolga-technical-institute\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-03-30-at-6.21.26-PM.jpg"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}