Fire can take away everything
The Ghana National Fire and Rescue Service is the same as your local fire department.
The headquarters of the Ghana National Fire and Rescue Service is in Accra, Ghana. Accra is the capital and largest city in Ghana, and is the second most populated region, after the Ashanti Region with about 16% of Ghana’s population.
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The
Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) changed its name to Ghana National Fire and
Rescue Service in March of 2010. The Ghana National Fire and Rescue Service
(GNFRS) is an agency under the Ghanaian Ministry of the Interior established in
1997. Ghana’s Ministry of the Interior is entrusted by its citizens to protect
and uphold Ghana’s safety regulations and laws. The President
of Ghana appoints the Chief Fire Officer.
The
Ghana National Fire Service is the same as your local fire department by
organizing public fire education programs, creating awareness of the hazards of
fire, prevention of fire, provides technical advice for building layouts to
facilitate escape from fire, rescue operations and of course fire management.
Ghanaian
firefighters
also spend much of their time maintaining equipment, doing routine public
safety inspections for businesses and housing, training for all types of
emergency responses and filling out the reports and paperwork.
Did you Know...?
The
earliest known fire department was formed in Ancient Rome staffed by slaves.
Fire departments were also formed after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
