By Adama Makasuba
The spokesman of the Gambia Fire and Rescue Service has branded as ‘illogical’ accusations firefighters who battled the Serrekunda market fire did not carry any water with them.
Traders at the market on Tuesday told The Fatu Network firefighters who came to the fire scene had no water in their fire engines.
“The fire services came here in two vehicles but they came empty. They shouldn’t show up if they knew that their tanks were empty,” an angry trader said.
But Pateh Gibba, spokesman of fire service debunked the allegations as false saying “it is illogical to go to a fire incident without water.”
He then said:”Let’s be rational here; going to a fire incident without water tantamount to losing your life because if you go to a fire incident without water you’re likely going to killing yourself.
“People are entitled to their opinions and these are allegations that we have been receiving daily . Anytime such incidents happened, people come up with their fabrication.”
At least a dozen traders at Serrekunda market registered a nightmare start to their New Year after their shops were gutted by fire.
At least ten shops have been burnt down to ashes by fire said to have started early Tuesday. Its cause is yet to be established.
Ebrima Bah, one of the victims told Fatu Network in an exclusive interview he lost over 400,000 dalasis to the fire.
