2023-04-23 22:13:12
The series of fires continues in the Burkinabè capital. This Sunday, April 23, 2023, the Naco power supply located opposite the SIAO in Ouagadougou went completely up in smoke.
It was around 9:40 am that the fire started according to Mohamed Zabré, Naco food manager opposite the SIAO. The fire started following a short circuit according to his words. ” There was a small mass at the level of the extensions. The time to run to jump the meter it caught fire “, explained Mohamed Zabré.
Arrived on the scene around 12 o’clock, it is a horrible constant that offers itself to be seen. Between flame and smoke, the shop is completely consumed. A large number of firefighters at work to put out the flames that persisted. The means mobilized were consistent in view of the extent of the fire and the damage.
During this time, employees and local residents were trying to recover what can still be recovered under the watchful eye of police officers dispatched to the field. The few rare goods that resisted the flames are drinks, cans and sachets of water.
Practically, it took more than 3 hours of intense combat for the fire soldiers to come to grips with the flames. But according to Mohamed, if things have reached this level, it is because the brigade did not perform in time. The fire started at 9 a.m. and the first team of the National Fire Brigade arrived at 11 a.m. according to the employees.
« We called the number of the fire brigade in vain, they did not pick up. Until we sent two people to go on a motorbike to call them “laments Mohamed Zabré. But for Commander Adama Sanou, commander of the 10th emergency fire company of the National Fire Brigade responsible on the spot, it is an apparent slowness.
Listening to him, it took no more than ten minutes for the team to arrive on site following receiving the alert. He advances by specifying that the line is in perpetual disturbance, something which delays the reception of certain alerts.
« The fire started at 9am as they say, but that’s not what our call receipt log noted. Certainly line 18 was out of order or in congestion. It’s a line that is permanently saturated by the fact that little jokers who often call the fire department to ask the time, some even to insult. There are also issues related technical “, justified the commander.
The Fire Brigade had given direct numbers in case of difficulties with 18. “ Unfortunately people first tried most of the time to extinguish the fire themselves insisting on the 18 which certainly might not work “, explains Adama Sanou.
The owner who came to the scene was asked to withdraw in view of the extent of the damage, according to Yoda Salif, younger brother of the food owner, who describes the scene as a disaster. The loss is huge and the assessment is difficult at the moment, he says. The damage is only material, but the ten employees in the food service are also in desolation.
The commander challenges the population to take all preventive and forward-looking provisions in regulatory matters. “It is to ask establishments and operators to approach the National Fire Brigade for fire expertise through fire safety visits to their facilities and also to take into account all the recommendations “, advises Adama Sanou.
Akim KY
Burkina 24
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