Fire officers have for the past two hours been making frantic efforts to put out a fire that has gutted some grocery shops at Adum in the Central Business District of the Ashanti Region.
“Fire officers are struggling to douse the flame. The heavy vehicular traffic in the area is also impeding the fire fighting process. Currently, the building where the fire started is collapsing,” Citi News‘ Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Hafiz Tijani said.
Fire officers are yet to determine the cause of the fire.
This comes on the back of an earlier fire that ravaged the wood market at Akwatialine in Kumasi on Thursday, February 3, 2022.
Last year, over 20 shops were destroyed by fire at the Kumasi Central Market.
The fire which started around 8:00 pm on Sunday, April 18, 2021, spread through shops operated by cobblers at the market.
The cause of the fire is not yet known. Firefighters spent hours trying to bring the situation under control.
Persons whose shops were located close to the section of the market which caught fire rushed to the scene to pick up their belongings
An eyewitness, Alhassan Idris told Citi News that: “I was asleep when I heard of the fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central market. I rushed to the market, and it was true that there was a fire outbreak. So I tried to help to contain the fire. As of the time I came to the market, I was passionate to help put out the fire, so I didn’t really ask what caused the fire.”
ACFO Henry Giwah, the Ashanti Regional Deputy Commander of the Ghana National Fire Service who spoke to the media complained about the challenges they had trying to access the fire scene.