GANTA CITY- Following the Friday, September 27, 2024, fire incident in the LPMC community in Ganta City that destroyed properties and goods worth thousands of dollars, the property owners are seeking an assistant.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday at their residence on the LPRC backpass, two of the property owners have launched an SOS call for the Disasters Management Committee and some humanitarian institutions to come to their aid.

Obediah Weh, the owner of a building materials store, and Dennis Paye, the owner of a medicine store, are appealing for assistance from the government of Liberia to enable them to re-establish their businesses.

Weh and Paye noted that the damages caused by the fire disaster brought a serious setback to them and even caused emotional and psychological problems for their kids.

Both businessmen said they were shocked when they heard the information that their business centers were on fire.

“I was on my way to work when the former county Inspector placed a call to me that my area was on fire; I was confused and had to get in the car to come”.  Noted Dennis Paye.

For his part, Obediah Weh narrated that he was in the bathroom in Karnplay at his assigned area when he received a call that his building materials store in the LPMC market was on fire.

Putting the estimate of his goods and amount used to renovate the building, Weh put the total cost at a little over $ 21,000 (twenty-one thousand United States dollars).

He revealed that all his invoices and business receipts were left in the fire and destroyed.

For his part, Paye said all his drugs (medicine) got destroyed as a result of the fire incident.

“If I do the total estimate of the goods and money used to do some renovation on the building, it will sum up to a little over $ 22,000 (twenty-two thousand United States dollars),” explained Paye.

Residents of the LPMC community woke up to the amazement of a fire that gutter on a building belonging to Aaron Henry that hosted drums of gasoline, a mini guest house, and a shop.

Community dwellers, passers-by, marketers, students, and motorcyclists stood by helplessly with the intention of helping but couldn’t help quench the fire.

They waited for the arrival of fire-fighters over hours until the fire went of by itself.

Many people have over the years cried on the Government of Liberia to open a functional fire services Sub-station with a fire truck in Ganta as the population keep growing on a daily basis.

It can be recalled on April 30, 2015 a fire gutter on a two bedroom house that destroyed it including many valuable items completely. In 2013 Ganta witnessed about five separate fire incident that left many mini stores damage, while in 2017 a fire that engulfed an apartment left an Indian dentist dead and just of recent in January 2024 another fire that gutter a building was reported in Ganta.