By Aquinas Nyakundi and Shadrack Mbaka
Student property worth thousands of shillings reduced to ashes when fire razed the upper block of a form one dormitory on Sunday evening at Kereri Girls High School in Kisii central.
The fire that started at 8pm paralyzed the evening preps at the institution as students rushed to rescue their property but the inferno overpowered them.
The fire brigade from G4S and the Municipal Council who arrived an hour later battled with the fire with the help of villagers, which they managed to contain three hours later.
There were no casualties in the incident as students were still in class for their preps apart from less than ten unconscious students rushed to hospital following the aftershock of the incident.
Speaking to Craze Utility and Nairobi Matters at the scene, the Director of Jomo Kenyatta University Kisii campus, Professor John Memba Ochora, who is also a parent at the school hailed the emergence response saying both public hospital and private ambulances rushed to the scene.
Professor Ochora described the dormitory structure as incompetently designed as it could be hard to carry out an evacuation exercise incase students happened to be caught up in the inferno.
He added that access to emergence exits be made easy to facilitate rescue operations in case of such incidences.
The congested dormitory houses more than 160 students with cubes carrying up to 30 students some of whom sleep on triple decker beds.
Valentine Kerubo, a student in form 1E said all her property were destroyed in the fire and the uniform she was wearing and a few books in class was what was left.
Parents who arrived in the institution to check on their children protested against a proposal by the BOG to have only form one students of other forms continue with studies, as the incident did not affect them.
The Principal was not available for comment, as she was attending a Principals seminar at the coast.
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