Story: Mary Ankrah
Fire on Wednesday afternoon gutted the factory and warehouse of Dannex Limited, dealers and manufacturers of pharmaceutical and medical products in the country.
The fire, which began about 12:15 p.m., left in its trail massive destruction of property and products worth millions of Ghana cedis.
Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) deployed four fire tenders, one turn-table ladder and two water tankers to bring the fire under control in an hour and a half.
There was a huge traffic congestion on the North Industrial Area road, where the company is sited, resulting in drivers and other road users inhaling the smoke emanating from the fire.
Workers of the company managed to retrieve some of its items, including movable equipment and bags of packaged products.
The Public Relations Officer of the GNFS, Divisional Officer Prince Billy Anaglate, said but for the timely intervention by the service, the fire could have caused greater damage.
He indicated that because the packed products in the warehouse were not segregated and there were no spaces among them, it was difficult fighting the fire.
The Managing Director of Dannex, Mr Yaw Opare Asamoah, told the Daily Graphic that the workers of the company were at their various workplaces when the incident occurred.
He said he was in the office when the Head of Human Resource informed him that there was a fire outbreak at the warehouse and the production site.
“I then quickly called the GNFS for assistance,” he said.
In a related development, more than 30 tenants occupying wooden and metal structures at Cosmos, near the Abeka Lapaz new market, were rendered homeless following a fire outbreak that engulfed their structures on Tuesday night.
The fire, which started around 7:45 p.m., destroyed property worth thousands of Ghana cedis, including household items such as refrigerators, television sets, sound systems, mattresses, clothing and cooking utensils.
When the Daily Graphic visited the scene of the fire outbreak on Wednesday morning, the area had been barricaded.
Some of the victims were, however, seen scavenging through the rubble to salvage what remained of their destroyed items. Others were seen still brooding over their lost items.
Some of the victims who were at home when the incident occurred attributed the cause to erratic electricity supply, saying that immediately power was restored, there were sparks of fire in one of the structures which eventually spread.
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