{"id":606223,"date":"2019-04-09T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday,  8 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n2019-04-08\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/38226951.295"},"modified":"2019-04-09T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:27:09","slug":"attempt-to-burn-vra-pipelines-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/09\/attempt-to-burn-vra-pipelines-foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to burn VRA pipelines foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday,  8 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-04-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/38226951.295.jpg\" alt=\"VRA Pipeline 4\" title=\"VRA Pipeline 4\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>VRA\u2019s own fire personnel first spotted flames bellowing from the pipelines area Sunday afternoon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">There was an attempt by some unidentified persons to burn pipelines belonging to the Volta River Authority (VRA) on Sunday, 3news.com has gathered.<\/p>\n<p>The lines have been confirmed to be the ones that supply fuel to the generating center of the Authority at the Tema industrial area.<\/p>\n<p>VRA\u2019s own fire personnel first spotted flames bellowing from the pipelines area Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>They found out that someone had parked used car tyres on the pipelines and set them ablaze but they quickly extinguished the fire with the support of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Affum, Deputy Tema Regional Fire Commander, who confirmed the incident to TV3\u2019s News360 on Monday said \u201csome damages were caused to the pipelines\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He could not however tell if the damages will have any effect on the operations of the Volta River Authority.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/VRA-pipeline-2.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/VRA-pipeline-3.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/VRA-pipeline-1.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\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\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\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\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\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\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\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\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\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 8 April 2019 Source: 3news.com 2019-04-08 VRA\u2019s own fire personnel first spotted flames bellowing from the pipelines area Sunday afternoon. There was an attempt by some unidentified persons to burn pipelines belonging to the Volta River Authority (VRA) on Sunday, 3news.com has gathered. The lines have been confirmed to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Attempt to burn VRA pipelines foiled - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/09\/attempt-to-burn-vra-pipelines-foiled\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Attempt to burn VRA pipelines foiled - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Monday, 8 April 2019 Source: 3news.com 2019-04-08 VRA\u2019s own fire personnel first spotted flames bellowing from the pipelines area Sunday afternoon. 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