{"id":134574,"date":"2015-07-14T21:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T21:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=134574"},"modified":"2015-07-15T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T06:05:45","slug":"fire-guts-abuja-slum-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=134574","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts Abuja slum in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 structures including stores, shacks and others have been destroyed\u00a0by fire in Abuja, a slum in Accra.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134590\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9873.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9873\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9873.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9873-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Personnel from the Fire Service are at the scene located around the Cocoa Marketing Board at the Central Business District of Accra\u00a0and have succeeded in bringing the inferno under control.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134589\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9872.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9872\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9872.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9872-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained although some residents\u00a0suspected it to have been started by a candle which was lit in one of the wooden structures in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134600\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9875.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9875\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9875.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9875-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The residents could be seen carrying their belongings away from the fire, while others tried to assist the officials from the fire service fight the blaze.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134601\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9877.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9877\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9877.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9877-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The slum is home to over a thousand people &#8211; mostly traders &#8211; who are predominantly from the Northern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134602\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9878.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9878\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9878.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9878-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a0residents tried to help fight the fire in any way they could including throwing sachets of water onto the blaze.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134606\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9897.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9897\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9897.jpg 650w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9897-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Others braved the searing heat and climbed one of the structures which was perilously close to the fire in an attempt to douse the flames with a water hose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134603\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9881.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9881\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9881.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9881-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After about an hour, the combined efforts of the fire service and the residents managed to bring the fire under control, although they looked to appeared to be struggling to contain the blaze at a point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134604\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9887.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9887\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9887.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9887-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same location was gutted by fire in\u00a02013, razing several wooden structures to the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-134607\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9913.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9913\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9913.jpg 650w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_9913-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is as yet unclear whether there were any human casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 structures including stores, shacks and others have been destroyed\u00a0by fire in Abuja, a slum in Accra. Personnel from the Fire Service are at the scene located around the Cocoa Marketing Board at the Central Business District of Accra\u00a0and have succeeded in bringing the inferno under control. The cause of the fire is yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":134588,"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-134574","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\/134574","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=134574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}