{"id":745068,"date":"2022-01-11T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/65-year-old-man-killed-as-fire-ravages-10-bedroom-house-at-kronum\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:59:54","slug":"65-year-old-man-killed-as-fire-ravages-10-bedroom-house-at-kronum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/65-year-old-man-killed-as-fire-ravages-10-bedroom-house-at-kronum\/","title":{"rendered":"65-year-old man killed as fire ravages 10 bedroom house at Kronum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fire-696x392.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Fire\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A 65-year-old man has been killed in a house fire at Kronum in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti region. <\/p>\n<p>The incident, according to reports, occurred on the evening of Monday, January 10.<\/p>\n<p>Ten rooms were destroyed with the cause of the fire not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, identified as Akwasi Asare, was said to be sleeping in his room after taking medication.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>His brother who was with him told <strong>Adom News<\/strong> he tried unsuccessfully to rescue him after the ceiling of the room caved in.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say it took personnel from the Ghana Fire Service about an hour to douse the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The body has since been deposited at the\u00a0Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital\u00a0morgue.<\/p>\n<p>The region, according to the\u00a0Fire Service, has recorded over 60 fire outbreaks since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rWtIr7qOhP8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Givers Industries- Badwam Afisem on Adom TV (11-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rWtIr7qOhP8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo A 65-year-old man has been killed in a house fire at Kronum in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti region. The incident, according to reports, occurred on the evening of Monday, January 10. Ten rooms were destroyed with the cause of the fire not yet known. The deceased, identified as Akwasi Asare, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745068","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\/745068","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=745068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}