{"id":80635,"date":"2025-12-20T15:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80635"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:11:05","slug":"abuja-fire-guts-firs-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/20\/abuja-fire-guts-firs-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: Fire guts FIRS building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A major fire outbreak has engulfed a section of the headquarters of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), in Abuja, causing panic at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said thick black smoke and raging flames were seen billowing from part of the FIRS building located in the Wuse Zone area of the city, attracting a swift response from emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from the FCT Fire Service were immediately deployed to the scene and were seen battling the inferno in an effort to prevent it from spreading to other sections of the complex.<\/p>\n<p>As the fire intensified, security personnel cordoned off the area to ensure safety and allow emergency responders unhindered access.<\/p>\n<p>As at the time of filing this report, there was no official confirmation of casualties or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency officials were still assessing the situation and the extent of damage caused by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident remains unknown, and authorities are yet to issue an official statement on what triggered the blaze or whether vital documents and records were affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 A major fire outbreak has engulfed a section of the headquarters of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), in Abuja, causing panic at the facility. Eyewitnesses said thick black smoke and raging flames were seen billowing from part of the FIRS building located in the Wuse Zone area of the city, attracting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80635","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=80635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80637,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80635\/revisions\/80637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}