{"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\/2017\/06\/fire-fighters-save-near-fire-disaster-at-gbc\/","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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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. 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