{"id":178370,"date":"2016-01-01T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=178370"},"modified":"2016-01-01T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:46:11","slug":"fire-razes-shops-in-kumasi-on-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=178370","title":{"rendered":"Fire razes shops in Kumasi on New year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire razed about ten shops at the Roman Hill area in Kumasi\u2019s central business district in the early hours of Friday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8c86987a-9127-4739-913b-9d87c58ca89d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178373\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/8c86987a-9127-4739-913b-9d87c58ca89d.jpg\" alt=\"8c86987a-9127-4739-913b-9d87c58ca89d\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, the cause of the fire which started around 2 am is not immediately known.<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/a439a936-38c8-480d-8ca8-743987e6c688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178375 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/a439a936-38c8-480d-8ca8-743987e6c688-e1451638333474.jpg\" alt=\"a439a936-38c8-480d-8ca8-743987e6c688\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personnel from the fire service arrived on the ground to tend to the fire about 20 minutes after it started.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/b6c24b63-1d28-48ad-9b13-62579f567aa6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178376\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/b6c24b63-1d28-48ad-9b13-62579f567aa6.jpg\" alt=\"b6c24b63-1d28-48ad-9b13-62579f567aa6\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shops gutted by the fire contained electronic appliances like refrigerators and television sets.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2a3537b7-9ee8-4f48-889a-767c3eb5725b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178372\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2a3537b7-9ee8-4f48-889a-767c3eb5725b.jpg\" alt=\"2a3537b7-9ee8-4f48-889a-767c3eb5725b\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire razed about ten shops at the Roman Hill area in Kumasi\u2019s central business district in the early hours of Friday. According to an eyewitness, the cause of the fire which started around 2 am is not immediately known. Personnel from the fire service arrived on the ground to tend to the fire about 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178370","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=178370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}