He said the tender to be used was out of commission.
“The Fire Service Officers went to the fire scene in a taxi cab with fire extinguishers to put out the fire because, at the time of the incident, the station water tender number FS706 was temporarily out of commission,” the Interior Minister told Parliament in Accra on Thursday.
The Minister gave the explanation in an answer to a question by Mr. Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, MP for South Dayi who wanted to know the circumstances under which Fire Service officers in Akyem Begoro traveled in a taxi with fire extinguishers to put out a fire.
The Minister said: “On Thursday 27th May 2021, at 1025 hours, a distress call was received at the Begoro Fire Station reporting an outbreak of fire at Bethlehem, a suburb of Akyem Begoro invoking a single room apartment.”
Mr. Dery said fire officers responded to the call, and a seven-member crew was dispatched to the fire scene in a taxi cab since the station’s water tender was temporarily out of commission.
According to the Minister, the crew got to the scene ad used four 6kg Dry Chemical Powder fire extinguishers and buckets of water from members in the community to douse the fire and to prevent it from further spreading to adjoining buildings.
The Bunso Fire Station, he said, was called in as a stop-gap measure, but when the crew got to the scene, people in the community had already brought the fire under control. Read Full Story
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