The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) is liaising with key agencies to provide early warning signals to flood prone areas in the capital city.

NADMO Coordinator, Brigadier General Francis Vib-Sanziri, says the move is part of efforts to avert a recurrence of the flood and fire disaster that struck in parts of Accra on June 3 last year.

“We will be getting in touch with most media houses the Information Services Department to be able to pass these information to some specific areas known to be flood prone,” he told a special edition of the Super Morning Show on Joy FM Friday.

The show was held on location at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, where a national commemoration was held in memory of the 153 victims of the disaster.

“We have specific areas which are known to be flood prone and such areas will be warned far in advance of what is going to happen.

“We have the rescue teams of NADMO, Fire Service, the Military and the police and we have now worked out the joint teams with specific zones allocated to various teams and when these early warning signs are given, these teams are to move out into these areas to monitor the rise of water and keep reporting to the necessary agencies,” he explained.

Some 153 people lost their lives after fire engulfed a flooded Goil Filling station at Circle on June 3, 2015.

The fire, which was said to have started at a market engulfed a flooded nearby Goil Filling station, shops, and houses, killing several people, some of whom had sought shelter at the station.

Some of the victims were said to have drowned in the floods and others died from severe burns from the raging fire.

Some of the bodies are yet to be identified one year on.

Brigadier Sanziri also revealed that safe zones will be identified at these flood prone areas for people to move to, in the event that an area is flooded.