{"id":60260,"date":"2025-01-31T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60260"},"modified":"2025-01-31T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:00:03","slug":"fire-outbreaks-at-dutse-filling-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/31\/fire-outbreaks-at-dutse-filling-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Outbreaks at Dutse Filling Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Bisola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fuel tanker explosion triggered a massive fire at a filling station in Dutse, Jigawa State, on Thursday evening. The incident occurred around 8 PM at Shakkotu along Kiyawa Road while the tanker was offloading fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses described a loud explosion followed by a raging fire that engulfed the station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI rushed to the scene and saw the tanker burst into flames, with fire spreading everywhere,\u201d said Baba Nura, a witness.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze caused significant damage to the filling station and nearby structures. The Jigawa State Police Command, through spokesperson SP Shi\u2019isu Adam, confirmed the incident, stating that emergency responders arrived swiftly to contain the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo casualties have been reported so far, but investigations are ongoing,\u201d Adam said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach the filling station manager for comments were unsuccessful, while staff declined to speak on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Bisola A fuel tanker explosion triggered a massive fire at a filling station in Dutse, Jigawa State, on Thursday evening. The incident occurred around 8 PM at Shakkotu along Kiyawa Road while the tanker was offloading fuel. Eyewitnesses described a loud explosion followed by a raging fire that engulfed the station. \u201cI rushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60260","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\/60260","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=60260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60262,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60260\/revisions\/60262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}