{"id":329013,"date":"2017-06-16T20:56:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=329013"},"modified":"2017-06-16T20:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:56:40","slug":"fire-fighters-save-near-fire-disaster-at-gbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=329013","title":{"rendered":"Fire fighters save near-fire disaster at GBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Service personnel prevented a fire from a warehouse on Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) from getting out of control on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The warehouse of the media corporation at Kanda\u00a0were engulfed by fire, prompting an emergency response to avert a disaster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_329035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329035\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329035\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GBC-fire-3.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: GBC\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: GBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_329033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329033\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329033\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GBC-fire-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: GBC\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: GBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three fire tenders were deployed to help salvage the situation as some staff looked on helplessly.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, as officials of the state broadcaster withheld information, and prevented journalists from other media houses from covering the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329037\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GBC-fire-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"gbc-fire-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329038 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GBC-fire-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"gbc-fire-3\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Information from the GBC website indicates that the fire started around 6:30 this with some sparks\u00a0sighted.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Citi News<\/strong> left the scene, there were still two fire trucks in the GBC premises, as one was seen leaving the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329040\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GBC-fire-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"gbc-fire-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329039\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GBC-fire-4.jpg\" alt=\"gbc-fire-4\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Service personnel prevented a fire from a warehouse on Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) from getting out of control on Friday evening. The warehouse of the media corporation at Kanda\u00a0were engulfed by fire, prompting an emergency response to avert a disaster. Three fire tenders were deployed to help salvage the situation as some staff looked [&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":[11],"tags":[8254,8255,3],"class_list":["post-329013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-gbc-fire","tag-ghana-broadcasting-corporation","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329013","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=329013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}