{"id":57449,"date":"2024-12-02T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T09:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57449"},"modified":"2024-12-02T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T09:23:53","slug":"fire-destroys-market-in-abuja-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/02\/fire-destroys-market-in-abuja-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Destroys Market in Abuja Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Cynthia Abah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A raging fire devastated the sole market in Trademore Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, in the early hours of Monday, leaving residents reeling from the loss.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze, which ignited around 3:30 a.m. shortly after power was restored by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, spread rapidly and overwhelmed the market before emergency responders could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses suspect an electrical fault as the possible cause of the fire. Joe, a resident who was among the first to notice the flames, described the situation as chaotic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was alerted around 4 a.m., and by then, the fire had already engulfed much of the market. We suspect it was triggered by an electrical fault,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency response was initially delayed, but the fire service from Dunamis Church arrived at 5 a.m., followed shortly by teams from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Sauka Station.<\/p>\n<p>It took nearly two hours to bring the inferno under control, preventing it from spreading to nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p>The full extent of the damage remains unknown, with traders and residents now grappling with significant losses and an uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are yet to release an official statement on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>This disaster adds to Trademore Estate\u2019s history of misfortunes.<\/p>\n<p>In June, severe flooding submerged homes, with reports of individuals swept away by floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p>The estate has faced repeated flooding incidents, including a similar tragedy in 2023 that left over 100 houses submerged.<\/p>\n<p>Residents now plead for urgent intervention to address the estate&#8217;s growing vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah A raging fire devastated the sole market in Trademore Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, in the early hours of Monday, leaving residents reeling from the loss. The blaze, which ignited around 3:30 a.m. shortly after power was restored by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, spread rapidly and overwhelmed the market before emergency responders could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":57450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-57449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57449","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57459,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57449\/revisions\/57459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}