{"id":114031,"date":"2015-05-05T17:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=114031"},"modified":"2015-05-05T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:54:38","slug":"fire-destroys-ashfoam-depot-at-achimota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=114031","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys Ashfoam depot at Achimota\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ashfoam depot located near the Achimota new station in Accra caught fire on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire which began around 11 am completely destroyed the shop and its content worth millions of Ghana cedis<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114038\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124854.jpg\" alt=\"20150505_124854\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124854.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124854-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown, but personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) who arrived at the scene were able to put out the fire which was spreading to a nearby Shell filling station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114036\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124850.jpg\" alt=\"20150505_124850\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124850.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124850-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Officer in Charge of the Legon Fire Station, Gilbert Tetteh Sangmor in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong> said: \u201cWe cannot tell the cause of the fire now. \u201c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114035\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124845.jpg\" alt=\"20150505_124845\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124845.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124845-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124830.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114034\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124830.jpg\" alt=\"20150505_124830\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124830.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150505_124830-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be after our preliminary investigations before we will be able to tell the public the cause of the fire. \u00a0For now we are doing salvaging. We are lucky, because we were able to put the fire out before it could spread to the nearby filling station. \u00a0It is full of lubricants and other highly inflammable petroleum products. We thank the Achimota Police for their support,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ashfoam depot located near the Achimota new station in Accra caught fire on Tuesday. The fire which began around 11 am completely destroyed the shop and its content worth millions of Ghana cedis The cause of the fire is unknown, but personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) who arrived at the scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":114032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-114031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}