The kitchen where the fire is believed to have started
AN 18-year-old graduate of Mfantsiman Girls Senior High School, Priscilla Oppong Yeboah and her eight-year-old sister, Esther Dakera, have met their untimely death in a fire outbreak that engulfed their house at Berlin-Top, a suburb of Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
According to neighbours, the incident which occurred around 11:30 pm Wednesday, razed down the entire five-bedroom self-contained apartment, killing the two in the process.
However, their father, Samuel Oppong Yeboah, Sunyani West District Director of Veterinary Services Department and their mother escaped unhurt.
The bodies of the girls have been retrieved and deposited at the regional hospital in Sunyani.
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Assistant Divisional Officer II (ADO II) Henrietta Budu, confirmed the tragedy to DAILY GUIDE when contacted.
The PRO said initial investigations conducted by the Fire Service into the incident established that the fire started from the kitchen where there was a leaking gas cylinder with a stone placed on the regulator.
Fire fighters therefore suspected that the leaking gas cylinder exploded after it caught fire from elsewhere and burnt the whole house.
ADO II Budu, however, indicated that the victims were not burnt as claimed by the public, but rather died out of suffocation by the thick smoke and gas.
She advised the general public to keep the fire emergency number -192 – in mind or on their mobile phones so that they could call for swift assistance in times of emergency.
She said residents delayed in calling the Fire Service, as the number, 190, was dialled instead of 192, for swift rescue services from the GNFS.
The Member of Parliament for Sunyani West, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, yesterday visited the area to ascertain the extent of havoc caused by the blaze and consoled the affected family.
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