The Marred Yuletide
This year's Yuletide should have been one of the best in recent times. Reason: Nana Akufo-Addo has won an election with an unprecedented margin in recent times. The result of the development has been...
Tag: Ghana National Fire Service
Blame Gov’t Attitude To Accountability For La Gas Explosion
A failure in the governance apparatus to hold relevant persons accountable is to blame for the Labadi explosion and other accidents resulting from a breach of safety regulations, the Chief Executive...
Labadi Explosion: Gov’t Attitude To Accountability To Blame
A failure in the governance apparatus to hold relevant persons accountable is to blame for the Labadi explosion and other accidents resulting from a breach of safety regulations, the Chief Executive...
Nana Addo Visits Victims Of Labadi Explosion
In a move many have called very humane, president-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has taken it upon himself to personally visit the victims of the labadi explosion and ensure their wellbeing. Nana Addo went...
Fire Service Scales Up Community Patrols
The Chief Fire Officer, Dr Albert Brown Gaisie, has directed all fire stations across the nation to intensify community patrols. This comes in the wake of a surge in fire disasters during the...
Nana Addo, Bawumia Visit Victims
President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo and his vice, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia visited victims of the Labadi explosion. The explosion, which occurred between the Labadi Cemetery and Trade Fair Centre, has left...
Death Toll Rises To 11
The death toll from the Labadi gas explosion Trade Fair Centre in Accra has risen to 11. Over 40 victims from the explosion are still receiving treatment at the 37 Military Hospital and the Korle Bu...
Gas Station At Centre of Labadi Explosion Closed
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ghana National Fire Service have shut down the Louis gas station at Labadi which was the sense of a gas explosion last Thursday. The explosion which...
Adherence To Safety Critical For Fuel Stations
The recent Labadi gas explosion in Accra has revived the debate around the location of fuel stations in residential areas, but the Fire Service has said enforcing safety measures will reduce the...
We’ve Trained Personnel To Deal With Outbreaks – GNFS
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has said it has trained a lot of firefighters across the country to curb any incident of fire outbreak. It said, its trained officers will educate farmers in...
EPA Closes Down LPG Station At La After Explosion
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has shut down the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station that exploded last Thursday and left nine dead and more than 12 injured. Other reports put the death...
Business At Accra Financial Centre Bounces Back After Fire
Business activities at the Accra Financial Centre have bounced back after a fire incident that occurred there on Saturday morning. The eight-story building opposite Ghana’s National Theatre was...
Fire At ADB Office Near National Theatre
But for the timely intervention of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), the Accra financial Centre located at Ridge would have been engulfed by fire. The fire which affected the signage of the...
Fire Service Controls Fire At Accra Financial Centre
But for the timely intervention of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), the Accra financial Centre located at Ridge would have been engulfed by fire. The fire which affected the signage of the...
Fire Displaces Hundreds At Apagya-Dagombaline In Ashanti Region
Over 500 residents of Apagya-Dagombaline in Kumasi have lost their homes. Over 500 residents of Apagya-Dagombaline in Kumasi have been displaced after fire destroyed their residential structures. No...
Hundreds Displaced Due To Fire At Apagya-Dagombaline, A/R
Over 500 residents of Apagya-Dagombaline in Kumasi have been displaced after fire destroyed their residential structures. No casualty was recorded but property worth thousands of Cedis were lost to...
No Water In Hydrants At Labadi Explosion Site
The Ghana Fire Service has revealed there was no water running through the fire hydrants around the site of the Labadi gas explosion on Thursday evening. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the...
Gas Explosion Kills 9 At La
Nine people have been confirmed dead in a gas explosion that occurred near the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre at La in Accra yesterday. About 12 others who sustained various degrees of injury...
Akufo-Addo Saddened By Trade Fair Gas Explosion
Ghana’s president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has underscored the need to take a second look at the siting of gas filling stations across the country in the wake of Thursday’s gas...
5 Burnt To Death, 30 Badly Injured
The Labadi gas station explosion left five persons instantly burnt to death and at least 30 others severely injured. A fatal explosion occurred at the Louis Gas Station close to the International...