{"id":744431,"date":"2022-01-11T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fire-kills-one-destroys-nine-rooms-at-kronom-kyerease\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:58:13","slug":"fire-kills-one-destroys-nine-rooms-at-kronom-kyerease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fire-kills-one-destroys-nine-rooms-at-kronom-kyerease\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire kills one; destroys nine rooms at Kronom Kyerease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Regional News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-11<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/18574776.295.jpg\" alt=\"The fire, according to reports, started on the evening of Monday, January 10\" title=\"The fire, according to reports, started on the evening of Monday, January 10\" width=\"295\" height=\"165\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The fire, according to reports, started on the evening of Monday, January 10<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">A 65-year-old man has died after a fire gutted his home at Kyerease, a suburb of Kronum in the Ashanti region.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, according to reports, started on the evening of Monday, January 10.<\/p>\n<p>An occupant of the affected house believes the fire might have been caused by an electrical fault, a claim the fire service is yet to confirm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard some inhabitants shouting fire! I realized it was coming from one of the rooms\u201d Adwoa Agyapomaa told Akoma FM\u2019s, Kwame Yeboah.<\/p>\n<p>Nine rooms were burnt.<\/p>\n<p>The charred body of Kwadwo Asare was found in one of the gutted rooms.<\/p>\n<p>His body has since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital morgue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man was bedridden and couldn\u2019t escape during the blaze\u201d an eyewitness revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say it took the fire service about an hour to douse the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashanti region since January this year has recorded over 60 fire outbreaks, according to the Ghana National Fire Service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022 Source: 3news.com 2022-01-11 The fire, according to reports, started on the evening of Monday, January 10 A 65-year-old man has died after a fire gutted his home at Kyerease, a suburb of Kronum in the Ashanti region. The fire, according to reports, started on the evening of Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}