{"id":59630,"date":"2025-01-16T01:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59630"},"modified":"2025-01-16T01:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:09:44","slug":"fire-razes-focus-holiday-inn-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/16\/fire-razes-focus-holiday-inn-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Razes Focus Holiday Inn, Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fire outbreak has gutted Focus Holiday Inn, a popular hotel in the Garki area of Abuja, sending guests and staff into panic.<\/p>\n<p>According to a hotel staff member, the alarm was raised by a guest who rushed to the reception, reportedly unclad, to alert workers.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which started in one section of the three-storey building, spread rapidly to other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Despite multiple distress calls, fire service responders were reportedly delayed. However, as of the time of this report, firefighters were on-site battling the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2022, Focus Holiday Inn is known for its upscale and luxurious offerings in Nigeria\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains unknown, and no casualties have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach hotel representatives, the fire service, and the police for comments were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A fire outbreak has gutted Focus Holiday Inn, a popular hotel in the Garki area of Abuja, sending guests and staff into panic. According to a hotel staff member, the alarm was raised by a guest who rushed to the reception, reportedly unclad, to alert workers. The fire, which started in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59630","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59632,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59630\/revisions\/59632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}