The Ghana National Fire Service says urbanisation is playing a big role in the recent fire outbreaks happening across the country.

“Most of the fires are in the urban areas and the three most important causes of fires in these areas are ignorance, negligence and carelessness,” the PRO Robinson Ellis said on Joy FM's Midday News, Thursday.

He told anchor Emefa Apawu that when these factors come into play, there is a likely event that there will be a fire outbreak.

His comment comes after fire outbreaks recently destroyed homes and properties running into thousands of cedis in some areas especially in the capital city.

The Electoral Commission Office at Sapeiman near Accra, was destroyed by fire in the early hours of August 14 destroying some materials.

In the same week in Shiashie, about 100 squatters had their homes destroyed by a fire outbreak.

In Latebiokorshie a man had his new taxi which he had secured with a ¢30,000 loan burnt while others had their shops destroyed by a fire outbreak.

In Takoradi, it took the fire service almost five hours to fight a fire which destroyed several shops in the central business district.

And on August 12, scores of people including a mother with a two-week-old baby was displaced after a fire destroyed their homes at Kaase in the Ashanti Region.

The fire is believed to have been caused by the syphoning of fuel at a retail point.

Mr Robinson reiterated the point of the Service that increased activities in these urban areas are accounting for these fires.

He added the Service has launched official investigations into all these cases.

"We are still working on the official causes of all these fires and we don't have the official report yet."