Nearly 300 students of Buipe Senior
High School have been asked to go home after they lost all their personal
belongings in a fire that burnt down their dormitory, Monday, February 3, 2020.
Public Relations Officer (PRO) of
the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Savannah region, Kanzoni
Donald, in a release said the decision has become necessary because
both students and the school have lost almost all academic and personal items.
Although the cause of the fire is
not readily known, it allegedly started from the girls' dormitory around 7am
Monday while students were in class and burnt down the structure.
JoyNews’ correspondent, Isaac Nongya, reports that unlike the recent fire
outbreak at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport company’s truck parking lodge
that was put out by personnel from the Damongo Fire Station, there was no such
intervention this time around resulting in the extensive damage.
Authorities say students could
have salvaged some of their property but the fire could not be controlled in
time because of the Ghana National Fire Service’s delay in
reaching the site.
They attribute it to the breakdown
of the fire tender in the community.
None of the students sustained any injury.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
