{"id":778577,"date":"2020-01-08T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/08\/fire-outbreak-claim-17-lives-in-winneba-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:01:48","slug":"fire-outbreak-claim-17-lives-in-winneba-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/fire-outbreak-claim-17-lives-in-winneba-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire outbreak claim 17 lives in Winneba in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nJ. K. Nabary, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Winneba (C\/R) Jan.<br \/>\n08, GNA &#8211; The Winneba District Command of the Ghana National Fire Service<br \/>\n(GNFS) responded to sixty-seven emergency situations to save lives and<br \/>\nproperties between January and November 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The figure, though a<br \/>\nsignificant decrease from the 103 recorded within the same period in 2018,<br \/>\nclaimed 17 lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Divisional Officer<br \/>\nII (DOII) Esau Sakyi Owusu, Winneba District Fire Commander, who made this<br \/>\nknown to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at Winneba, said but for<br \/>\ntheir swift response, the number of lives lost could have been more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">According to him,<br \/>\ntheir swift response to the fire incidents saved 347 lives while an estimated<br \/>\namount of over one billion Ghana Cedis were saved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He said the<br \/>\nincidents included 27 fire outbreaks, 27 vehicular accidents, four vehicular<br \/>\nfires, five bush fires, two flood situations, a drowning case and bee invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cThis achievement<br \/>\nwas as results of our intensive educational campaigns engaged by the safety<br \/>\ndepartment within the period both on the field and at the local FM Radio<br \/>\nstations,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Fire Commander<br \/>\nassured the general public of their commitment to work hard to ensure further<br \/>\nreduction in losses of lives and properties within the Winneba enclave and<br \/>\ncalled for their maximum cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cAs people we should<br \/>\nnote that, we are in a period where the dynamics of the weather demand more<br \/>\nattention,\u201d he stated, while advising the general public to strictly adhere to<br \/>\nfire safety regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cThe absorption of<br \/>\nmoisture around this time exposes materials and make them more prone to fire.<br \/>\nWe the personnel of the Fire Service will do our part to ensure fire free year,<br \/>\nbut the public also have to play their part,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">DOII Owusu advised<br \/>\nthe public to avoid prolong use of air conditioners, stop the behaviors of not<br \/>\nattending to appliances in use at offices, stores and in the homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He admonished food<br \/>\nvendors at the lorry parks and the markets to be extra careful when setting<br \/>\nfire for cooking and urged farmers to create fire belts before burning farm<br \/>\nslashes to avoid indiscriminate bush fires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He further advised<br \/>\nmotorist to be extra caution on the read to help prevent carnage on the road<br \/>\nespecially with the inception of the harmattan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">GNA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By J. K. Nabary, GNA Winneba (C\/R) Jan. 08, GNA &#8211; The Winneba District Command of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) responded to sixty-seven emergency situations to save lives and properties between January and November 2019. The figure, though a significant decrease from the 103 recorded within the same period in 2018, claimed 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fire outbreak claim 17 lives in Winneba in 2019 - 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\/2019\/01\/08\/fire-outbreak-claim-17-lives-in-winneba-in-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fire outbreak claim 17 lives in Winneba in 2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By J. 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