Some firefighters of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) on Thursday met stern resistance from some folks at Circle when they arrived at Avenor to douse a bus that caught fire.
The GNFS received a distress call at 3:49pm to attend to a bus on fire at the O.A. bus terminal at Avenor in Accra.
The first appliance from Circle Fire Station got to the fire scene at 3:58pm, but upon arrival, “the crew and fire tender were attacked and vandalized by the mob who had gathered at the fire scene.”
It is unknown what the reason for the attack was. According to the GNFS, police arrived at the fire scene to maintain law and order for firefighting to proceed.
The firefighters managed to successfully douse the flame and prevented any casualty but the bus and its contents got burnt.
Currently, the GNFS is working to ascertain the cause of the fire while the Police is yet to effect any arrest of the attackers on the firefighters and the fire tender.