Several shops at Zongo Lane, near Rawlings Park in Accra, are still engulfed in flames 24 hours after a devastating fire.
This has left the entire area inundated with smoke.
Besides the visibly exhausted firefighters still trying to douse the flames, traders could be seen in face masks looking on hopelessly as their wares were reduced to ashes.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Alex King Nartey, the blaze is being fueled by the excessive amount of oxygen in the area.
He said the team had managed to contain the fire before a part of the building caved in allowing more oxygen in.
Despite the efforts of the firefighters, the inferno has proven too intense.
The lack of a fire ladder and sufficient water pressure is hindering their ability to combat the second-floor blaze effectively.
Meanwhile, looters have taken advantage of the situation and are carting away goods from the affected shops.
The inferno rapidly reduced clothing, electronics, and other goods in the shops to ashes.
Alex King Nartey, earlier said their effort to douse the flames was prolonged by the explosions of gas cylinders in some shops.
“To even get access to cut the fire from spreading to other floors were curtailed, because the padlocks and fortifications were too much. That’s what delayed and so we have to call our rescue team.
“If you realise the kind of materials here, generators, gas cylinders, and right now we fear the building might collapse. It’s been very tough to fight and until the fire is totally out we are not going, ” he said.
However, no injuries have been recorded.