Fire rages four-bedroom house at Pataase

A four-bedroom house has been burnt to ashes following a gas cylinder explosion at Pataasi in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region

The fire, which started on Tuesday evening, completely destroyed the house and several properties.

Some residents in the area in an interview with OTEC News Kwame Agyenim Boateng on Tuesday December 5, 2022, said they only heard the sound of the cylinder exploding followed with a thick smoke in the house.

They added that the entire building was engulfed in flames in no time after the explosion.

There were no casualties as the only occupant of the house, managed to escape from the inferno.

Some residents, who claimed to have called the Ghana National Fire Service GNFS right after the explosion, accused them of arriving late the scene.

Meanwhile, fire fighters who eventually got to the scene managed to douse out the fire, preventing it from entering other near-by houses.

Officers of the GNFS have since commenced investigations into the incident.

Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Jacob Agyenim Boateng