{"id":18768,"date":"2024-02-07T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18768"},"modified":"2024-02-07T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:02:14","slug":"fire-service-men-averts-fire-disaster-in-awka-gas-plant-nnewi-timber-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/07\/fire-service-men-averts-fire-disaster-in-awka-gas-plant-nnewi-timber-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Service Men Averts Fire Disaster in Awka Gas Plant, Nnewi Timber Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anambra State Fire Service men on Tuesday had a six-hour battle in attempt to extinguish fire outbreak at timber market in Nnewi, industrial town of the State.<\/p>\n<p>An explosion was also averted by the fire fighters in a gas plant after controlling another fire from burning bush behind the plant on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters gathered that the Nnewi inferno, which started around 11am from a gully heap of saw-dust in the market, raised thick smoke that covered the market.<br \/>\nThe inferno behind the gas plant, which occurred around 9pm, was reportedly controlled by fire fighters who arrived the scene shortly.<\/p>\n<p>State Fire Chief, Engr. Martin Agbili, confirming both incidents, said no life was lost which he said caused panic within the environs.<\/p>\n<p>While he linked the Awka fire to bush burning by yet-to-be identified persons, Agbili said the cause of Nnewi inferno was yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anambra State Fire Service men on Tuesday had a six-hour battle in attempt to extinguish fire outbreak at timber market in Nnewi, industrial town of the State. An explosion was also averted by the fire fighters in a gas plant after controlling another fire from burning bush behind the plant on the same day. Reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nnewi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18811,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions\/18811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}