{"id":349733,"date":"2017-08-31T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=349733"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:34:43","slug":"fire-fighters-douse-fire-in-manhyia-palace-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=349733","title":{"rendered":"Fire fighters douse fire in Manhyia Palace kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Fire Service responded swiftly to subdue a fire that erupted at the Manhyia Palace\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, who spoke to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> on condition of anonymity, the fire resulted from a gas cylinder explosion in the kitchen area of the Manhyia Palace.<\/p>\n<p>He narrated that, one of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu\u2019s cooks was present when the explosion occurred.<\/p>\n<p>However, no casualty was recorded from the explosion or the resulting fire.<\/p>\n<p>Two fire tenders from the Manhyia station, and another fire tender from the regional command, were called in to handle the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), were also called to disconnect electricity at the palace to stop the spread of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>As at the time <strong>Citi News<\/strong> spoke to the eyewitness, he said: &#8220;The Fire Service, the ECG people too are there [at the scene of the fire]. They are doing their work well with some police officers also around. So they are checking to make sure there are no more issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Fire Service responded swiftly to subdue a fire that erupted at the Manhyia Palace\u00a0on Thursday. According to an eyewitness, who spoke to Citi News on condition of anonymity, the fire resulted from a gas cylinder explosion in the kitchen area of the Manhyia Palace. He narrated that, one of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei [&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],"tags":[412,3,10735],"class_list":["post-349733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fire","tag-ghana-news","tag-manhyia-palace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349733","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=349733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}