{"id":172268,"date":"2015-12-06T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=172268"},"modified":"2015-12-06T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T16:36:36","slug":"two-kids-rescued-in-fire-incident-at-achimota-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=172268","title":{"rendered":"Two kids escape death in Achimota fire incident [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two kids, aged 11 and 9,\u00a0narrowly escaped death on Sunday afternoon, when their apartment at Achimota\u00a0in Accra caught fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-172265\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0016.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20151206-WA0016\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0016.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0016-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fire,which occurred in a self-contained apartment behind the Latex Foam Showroom in Achimota, saw the destruction of valuable\u00a0items.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-172263\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0014.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20151206-WA0014\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0014.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0014-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Kwame Botchway reported that \u201ceverything in the apartment has been destroyed and not a single item has been salvaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-172261\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0001.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20151206-WA0001\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0001.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were two kids in the house at the time but they are both safe\u201d he added. According to him, the kids amidst screaming, hurriedly run out of the house when the fire started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-172260\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0009.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20151206-WA0009\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0009.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fire started around 1:30pm\u00a0but the fire fighters arrived at the scene at 2:00pm. According \u00a0to the security guard for the Latex Foam Showroom, \u00a0Fred Twum Barimah, the first fire tender \u00a0to arrive at the scene had no water to fight the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-172264\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0015.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20151206-WA0015\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0015.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG-20151206-WA0015-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is unclear yet what started the fire. But the Accra Regional Fire Officer, \u00a0Emmanuel Simpson, says the fire may have been triggered by an electrical fault.<\/p>\n<p>He advised the public to be cautious with the onset of the harmattan season,\u00a0since more fire outbreaks are likely to occur during the period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>Photos: Kwame Botchway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two kids, aged 11 and 9,\u00a0narrowly escaped death on Sunday afternoon, when their apartment at Achimota\u00a0in Accra caught fire. The fire,which occurred in a self-contained apartment behind the Latex Foam Showroom in Achimota, saw the destruction of valuable\u00a0items. Citi News\u2019 Kwame Botchway reported that \u201ceverything in the apartment has been destroyed and not a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":172262,"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-172268","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\/172268","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=172268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}