Preliminary investigations conducted by the Ghana National Fire Service suggest Wednesday’s inferno at the Nkrumah Circle Goil Filling Station was caused by a loose valve at the station’s fuel storage bay.
Deputy Public Relations Officer of the GNFS, Billy Anaglatey, told local television network TV3:
“Our [GNFS] investigations continued and we realized that some of the valves were not properly closed so the running water was entering into the underground tank and because of density factor, it went under the fuel and pushed the fuel up.
“So the fuel was coming from the underground tank and the whole area was having the fuel on the surface of the running water.
“It is not all the fuel that comes out that was mixable with water…but it was a running water so it was able to move from the Goil Filling Station to over 100 meters, where it met a naked fire and traced it back to the filling station then the explosion happened.”
Wednesday’s inferno has resulted in over 200 deaths. Officials say they are still counting losses in an operation that has been successful so far.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
