{"id":78531,"date":"2014-12-31T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=78531"},"modified":"2014-12-31T19:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T19:50:34","slug":"fire-guts-shops-dome-one-person-feared-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=78531","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts shops in Dome; one person feared dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is feared dead in a fire that gutted some\u00a0shops in a market at Dome, a town in the Greater Accra region.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 shops are believed to have been affected in the blaze which started around 2pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78537\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0005.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20141231-WA0005\" width=\"511\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0005.jpg 511w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0005-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Ro9sA2otksmdELMMC8X6IkzML6VXZ9Tt&#8221;]Firefighters who arrived at the scene have brought the inferno under control.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Fire Service, Ellis Okoe Robison, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that the situation was under control but that the cause of the fire is still unclear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78538\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0006.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20141231-WA0006\" width=\"450\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0006.jpg 450w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0006-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For now I must say everything is under control. At the entrance [the fire has been put out] but inside there is smoke coming out of the market. So they [the firefighters] are still pouring water on it&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that there were indications that one person had died in the fire, reportedly a 12-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78533\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0004.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20141231-WA0004\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0004.jpg 450w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG-20141231-WA0004-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the latest market fire in the country 2014, following similar incidents at the <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/25\/kumasi-central-market-gutted-by-fire-again\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Kumasi Central market<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in November and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/16\/fire-guts-tamale-aboabo-grains-market\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Tamale\u00a0grains market<\/strong><\/span><\/a> earlier in December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person is feared dead in a fire that gutted some\u00a0shops in a market at Dome, a town in the Greater Accra region. About 20 shops are believed to have been affected in the blaze which started around 2pm on Wednesday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Ro9sA2otksmdELMMC8X6IkzML6VXZ9Tt&#8221;]Firefighters who arrived at the scene have brought the inferno under control. 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