{"id":122636,"date":"2015-06-06T23:29:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T23:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=122636"},"modified":"2015-06-07T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T12:32:24","slug":"fire-destroys-shops-at-tip-toe-lane-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=122636","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys shops at Tip Toe lane, Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some shops at the Tip Toe lane at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra was ravaged by fire on Saturday around 10 pm.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;XsPNeGykWpj8yyaBrJsEZZmOLOqzi0uK&#8221;]According to reports, an electrical cable\u00a0sparked the fire moments after power was restored to the area after a blackout.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service arrived at the scene and have since doused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no casualties have been recorded but most shop owners who mostly deal in mobile phones and accessories lost their wares in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Some however reportedly managed to salvage some of their goods before the fire intensified.<\/p>\n<p>This comes days after fire razed down the Goil Fuel Station at Kwame Nkrumah Circle near the GCB bank towers.<\/p>\n<p>About <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/05\/floods-fire-death-toll-hits150-mahama\/#sthash.pIGdBtYK.fUel64Gd.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">150 persons perished<\/a><\/strong><\/span> while others have been displaced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some shops at the Tip Toe lane at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra was ravaged by fire on Saturday around 10 pm. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;XsPNeGykWpj8yyaBrJsEZZmOLOqzi0uK&#8221;]According to reports, an electrical cable\u00a0sparked the fire moments after power was restored to the area after a blackout. The personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service arrived at the scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":122637,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-122636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122636","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}