{"id":200555,"date":"2025-06-20T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inferno-in-tema-fire-consumes-500-structures-displaces-700\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:14:15","slug":"ghana-inferno-in-tema-fire-consumes-500-structures-displaces-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inferno-in-tema-fire-consumes-500-structures-displaces-700\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Inferno in Tema!&#8230; Fire Consumes 500 Structures, Displaces 700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Over 500 wooden structures behind Ferro Fabrik Limited in the heavy industrial area were on Wednesday razed down by fire displacing about 700 people including children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">No casualties were recorded, and the cause of the fire was also not readily known as investigations by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) had just started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">A visit by the Chief Fire Officer (CFO) to the fire scene in the early hours of Thursday, showed the displaced victims including nursing mothers counting their losses and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 500 wooden structures behind Ferro Fabrik Limited in the heavy industrial area were on Wednesday razed down by fire displacing about 700 people including children. No casualties were recorded, and the cause of the fire was also not readily known as investigations by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) had just started. A visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,12585,24302,6600,4508,4509,10687,257,254,8390,12656],"class_list":["post-200555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-consumes","tag-displaces","tag-fire","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-inferno","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-structures","tag-tema"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}