{"id":131662,"date":"2015-07-05T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=131662"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T16:32:28","slug":"fire-guts-transformer-at-achimota-sub-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=131662","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts transformer at Achimota sub-station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the transformers at the Achimota sub-station has been destroyed by fire.<br id=\"0.3960034006740898\" \/><br id=\"0.0407792457845062\" \/>Residents of Dzorwulu say they heard a loud explosion around 7 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;xREVqDdVpeV0aOhjpb4umpRMyCsyITNa&#8221;]According to them, the few members of staff on site tried to fight the fire but could not because of the intensity of the blaze.<br id=\"0.5089648144785315\" \/><br id=\"0.5409875093027949\" \/>The emergency crew of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) arrived with three fire engines to bring the fire under control.<br id=\"0.10151016642339528\" \/><br id=\"0.22024962306022644\" \/>Though the cause of the fire is unknown, the damage on the 160,000o volts power transformer has cut power supply to the eastern part of Accra.<br id=\"0.051798215601593256\" \/><br id=\"0.8041962829884142\" \/>Areas affected include Dzorwulu, Roman Ridge, Newtown, Kanda and Adenta.<br id=\"0.45104371872730553\" \/><br id=\"0.374105665134266\" \/>The Chief Executive Officer of GRIDCO, William Amunah, has assured the affected areas that power will be restored within the shortest possible time.<br id=\"0.14224980142898858\" \/><br id=\"0.7339743871707469\" \/>Some eyewitnesses were shocked at the state of fire-fighting equipment at the premises and urged authorities to resource the place with industrial fire-fighting machines.<br id=\"0.3922478621825576\" \/><br id=\"0.3329702694900334\" \/>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the transformers at the Achimota sub-station has been destroyed by fire.Residents of Dzorwulu say they heard a loud explosion around 7 on Saturday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;xREVqDdVpeV0aOhjpb4umpRMyCsyITNa&#8221;]According to them, the few members of staff on site tried to fight the fire but could not because of the intensity of the blaze.The emergency crew of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":131663,"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":[17],"class_list":["post-131662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131662","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}