{"id":314313,"date":"2016-01-05T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T21:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/new-year-fire-consumes-8-shops-in-kumasi\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T21:12:04","slug":"new-year-fire-consumes-8-shops-in-kumasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/05\/new-year-fire-consumes-8-shops-in-kumasi\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Fire Consumes 8 Shops In Kumasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-area\" readability=\"77.221423436377\">\n<div id=\"content-area\" readability=\"75\">\n<div class=\"post-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyguideafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fire-in-Kumasi-620x400.jpg?3d6053\" class=\"attachment-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fire in Kumasi\"\/><\/div>\n<p><!--post-image--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 --><!-- [leadin: 0 urCount: 0 urMax: 0] --><br \/>\n<!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the gutted shops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOME PEOPLE in Kumasi started the New Year on a sour note as a ferocious inferno gutted their stores, destroying valuable wares kept in them.<\/p>\n<p>The fire reportedly started barely two hours after the New Year had been ushered in, leaving behind serious damages.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses report indicated that the blaze started in a certain shop at Roman Hill \u2013 close to the Kumasi Central Market \u2013 around 2am.<\/p>\n<p>They claimed that electricity supply to the neighbourhood was cut and when it was restored, they saw a thick smoke emanating from one of the shops.<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, the smoke turned into fire, which travelled at top speed, due to the dry weather, consuming five shops in the process.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 --><br \/>\n<!-- [midtext: 1 urCount: 1 urMax: 0] --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 --><\/p>\n<p>Fire fighters responded swiftly to the distress call as they quickly rushed to the place to douse the blaze, which by then had swallowed eight shops.<\/p>\n<p>The items destroyed by the inferno included generators, fridges, \u00a0second-hand clothing, among others.<\/p>\n<p>There were melancholic spectacles at the disaster scene when <em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em> visited Roman Hill around 7:00 am on the New Year\u2019s Day (Fiday, January 1).<\/p>\n<p>Most of the affected people were seen wailing openly and cursing their stars for starting 2016 on such a bitter note.<\/p>\n<p>The affected people said they had lost their source of livelihood and appealed to the government to come to their aid.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0FROM I.F. 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