C/R: Fire Guts Social Welfare Girls Vocational School At Pedu

Fire has swept through a 3 unit dormitory block of the Social Welfare Girls Vocational Training Center at Pedu in the Cape Coast North District of the Central Region the Thursday evening. One student who was reported to have been sleeping in one of the rooms fainted as she tried to escape the inferno and was sent to Cape Coast

Teaching Hospital too for treatment. It is unknown what caused that fire that destroyed items also like sewing machines, gas cylinders, electric irons, textbooks, and uniforms. According to the students, the fire occurred when most of them were in the classrooms studying. It took the Fire Service officers a long time to bring the fire

under control. All the students have had to sleep in the classrooms and dining halls with hired mattresses. The Cape Coast Metro NADMO Director, Stephen Foli also assured all the students that his outfit will do everything possible to make them comfortable. Meanwhile, some teachers in an interview appealed to the the Cape Coast

Metropolitan Assembly to remove all the stores too that have also surrounded the school making the entrance narrow. According to them, the Fire Service had a tough time also entering the school to fight the fire due to the narrow entrance created by the haphazard placing of all container stores.