Officials of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) are asking the various Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies to fully implement recommendations made in various fire reports or risk having frequent fire outbreaks.

According to the fire service, city authorities have failed to implement several proposals such as setting up fire posts and clearing allays and gangways in markets to allow free movement in the event of an outbreak of fire.

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of GNFS, Billy Anaglatey told Joy News Wednesday, that the various assemblies must enforce their bye-laws as accessibility into the markets in times of fire outbreaks and other emergency situations, has always been an interference to their operational efficiencies.

"When these market fires were occurring, I saw AMA [officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly] descended into the markets to remove structures but [currently], the structures are back.

"We want to prevent fires in the market and we should ensure that all these measures [are fully] implemented.

"When we implement some of these measures and we leave the rest, we have not done anything", the GNFS PRO intimated.

The reaction from the authorities of the GNFS follows complaints by traders at the Timber market near Agbogbloshie, who indicated that the destruction caused by yesterday's fire could have been minimized if fire fighters had access into the market.

Several properties running into millions of Ghana cedis were lost as a result of difficulty in getting access into the market, when fire broke up in the Agbogbloshie market.

Mr. Anaglatey further noted that the service report also recommended the establishment of fire posts in the various markets to be manned by fire personnel.

This, he observed, will provide a-24-hour monitoring and identifying hazards in the markets.