{"id":196241,"date":"2014-06-13T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/fire-guts-pr-office-of-agric-ministry\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:42:00","slug":"fire-guts-pr-office-of-agric-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/06\/13\/fire-guts-pr-office-of-agric-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts PR office of Agric Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3e85b27ia44yxt_7cf61bb77c4595d4bf0bf2c0b4dfa049_l.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NTQ4NzI5';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<p>Some audio-visual materials and other office documents were yesterday destroyed when fire gutted the Public Relations (PR) office of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>The materials included some video tapes of previous National Farmers Day celebrations and tours conducted by ministers who had served the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>It took the efforts of workers of the ministry and some labourers working on the ministry&#8217;s extension project to bring under control the fire, which started at 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured and the cause of the fire was yet to be established as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Fighting the fire\u00a0 <br \/>A member of staff who saw heavy smoke emerging from the windows of the Public Relations Department raised the alarm.<\/p>\n<p>The workers had to battle the fire from the rear of the building, as the door to the department which was on fire was locked.<\/p>\n<p>Fire fighters arrived 10 minutes after the fire had been put out.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Mr Frank Siaw-Otu, told the Daily Graphic that he was attending a meeting when he received a call from some colleagues at the ministry that his office was on fire.<\/p>\n<p>He said the fire might have been caused by some cables on the wall of the office.<\/p>\n<p>Writer&#8217;s email:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>This article has <b>0<\/b> comment,  leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t    \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Some audio-visual materials and other office documents were yesterday destroyed when fire gutted the Public Relations (PR) office of the Ministry of Food and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}