‘Our pipes stock are all gone’ — Duraplast marketing manager counts losses after Avenor fire
Duraplast has lost its entire stock of pipes after an early-morning fire gutted a warehouse at the company’s facility in the North Industrial Area at Avenor, Accra, with the company’s Marketing Manager, Emmanuel Donkor, blaming the intensity of the blaze partly on illegal structures behind its premises and revealing that the facility’s fire hydrants were empty.
Duraplast, a company based in Accra, suffered extensive losses after a fire broke out at its warehouse in the North Industrial Area. Marketing Manager Emmanuel Donkor estimated that the fire completely destroyed the company's entire stock of pipes. When Donkor arrived at the office around 6:45am, he was informed about the fire starting at the company's annex.
He and colleagues called for help, but two fire engines initially arriving at the scene were unable to contain the blaze. Duraplast had firefighting hydrants on the premises, but the hydrants were empty at the time of the incident. The company had to reach out to Ghana Water for assistance. The fire's intensity was exacerbated by illegal structures located behind Duraplast's wall, which sparked the fire.
Donkor attempted to save some products by moving the pipes away from the flames using a forklift, but the majority of the pipes were already burned. He described the company's losses as "enormous," with its entire stock of pipes destroyed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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