{"id":81967,"date":"2026-01-20T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81967"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:00:58","slug":"fire-outbreaks-destroy-%e2%82%a6650m-property-in-abuja-in-32-hours-ffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/20\/fire-outbreaks-destroy-%e2%82%a6650m-property-in-abuja-in-32-hours-ffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Outbreaks Destroy \u20a6650m Property in Abuja in 32 Hours -FFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Fire Service (FFS) has reported three major fire outbreaks in Abuja within 32 hours in January 2026, causing losses estimated at over \u20a6650 million. Preliminary investigations suggest the fires were triggered by electrical surges and overloading.<\/p>\n<p>The latest blaze occurred early Monday, January 19, at Corner Shops, Chalyx Close, Abacha Road, Maraba, affecting six retail outlets. Emergency teams from Garki and Nyanya stations contained the fire, saving property valued at about \u20a6100 million from the estimated \u20a6400 million at risk. This followed outbreaks at Kugbo Furniture Market and Leventis Plaza within the previous 32 hours.<\/p>\n<p>FFS Controller-General Olumode Samuel Adeyemi warned that the fires were largely preventable, urging residents and business operators to avoid electrical overloading and adhere to basic fire safety measures. He stressed that prompt reporting of emergencies is crucial to reducing losses. The public was advised to report incidents via the FFS emergency line: 0803 200 3557.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Fire Service (FFS) has reported three major fire outbreaks in Abuja within 32 hours in January 2026, causing losses estimated at over \u20a6650 million. Preliminary investigations suggest the fires were triggered by electrical surges and overloading. The latest blaze occurred early Monday, January 19, at Corner Shops, Chalyx Close, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81967","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\/81967","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81969,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967\/revisions\/81969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}