Fire Got Over Twenty Houses + Destroys Things

And this one happened in our sister country, Ghana. Properties worth over thousands of Ghana cedis were “consumed” to ashes in a fierce fire that razed down 20 houses at Somanya Adjikpo in the Yilo Krobo Municipality.
The fire, which, according to an eyewitness, started at about 8:00 am, consumed a lot of essential valuable including household appliances (television sets, fridges, sets of CD players, and furniture) among other treasure.
Speaking to the paper on arrival at the scene, Mr. Frank Annor, an eyewitness, said the fire, which started from one of the rooms of the compound house, spread to the other rooms like bushfire.
According to him, the level of destruction would have been minimal if the Municipal Fire Service had responded in time, as well as having the necessary tools to fight the fire, even when they arrived late.
He explained that tenants and sympathisers who besieged the place in an attempt to put out the fire, took some respite despite the late arrival of personnel from the Municipal Fire Service, only to realize that the fire tender, with over 2,000 gallon capacity of water, was not functioning.
The presence of the fire personnel was practically useless, since their efforts to control the fire proved futile, and had to look on helplessly.
Even though the root cause of the fire had not been identified as at the press time, the landlord to the burnt compound house, Mr. Tetteh Akutteh, suspected it to be an electrical fault.
So fire service failure doesn’t happen only in Nigeria? SMH.