Fire has destroyed electrical materials worth millions of Ghana cedis at the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) sub-station warehouse in Tamale in the Northern Region. The disaster which occurred Sunday afternoon at about 1423 hours (March 2, 2025) affected equipment such as transformers, high tension cables, and meters among others.

Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service from the Tamale Metro Fire Station and the Tamale Teaching Hospital Fire Station were immediately dispatched to combat the inferno.

The Northern Regional Public Relations Officer of the Fire Service, ADOII Baba Hudu, in an exclusive interview said that preliminary findings reveal that the outbreak was as a result of an explosion of one of the transformers. He further explained that the explosion created a spark that resulted to fire which got involved with other combustible materials and subsequently spreading to other parts of the warehouse.

ADOII Baba Hudu has however advised the general public to be extra careful whilst using fire in any activity, stating this period is a very volatile period where the moisture content in everything is consumed by the harsh weather condition and for that matter people should always take safety measures into consideration and follow all the safety protocols in anything they do with fire.

“At least property owners should be taking risk assessment on daily basis so that they will be able to unravel the possible causes of fire. If this is done, at least, it would either prevent or reduce some of these fire incidents” he maintained.

Meanwhile, the PRO has also expressed worry over the alarming number of fire outbreaks recorded in the region barely three months into the New Year compared to same period last year. He disclosed over one hundred fire incidents have been recorded already in 2025 in northern region.

“The situation is not pleasant I will say because if you look at January, we recorded 67 fires, February (54) fires – so averagely we have already recorded 100 plus fires within two months which I think, compared to last year [the whole of last year], we recorded 373 fire outbreaks.

“And so if two months have already gone past hundred, I think it is something we should all be concerned about as a region” he bemoaned.

Source: Ginanewsroom.com