{"id":44171,"date":"2021-08-17T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fire-guts-gisozi-furniture-workshop\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T06:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:10:30","slug":"fire-guts-gisozi-furniture-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fire-guts-gisozi-furniture-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts Gisozi furniture workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident took place today morning around 9a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses have told IGIHE that the fire outbreak emerged as workers welded metals and quickly caught mattresses.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire gutted the facility when welders joined metal parts. Flames spread to mattresses which immediately started burning uncontrollably,\u201d said Uwase Clarisse. <\/p>\n<p>She revealed that encouraging workers at the furniture market to own fire extinguishers would be helpful in case similar incidents occur.  <\/p>\n<p>Another witness identified as Selemani Habimana has said that mattresses should be sold separately from the main business workshop to avoid similar incidents. <\/p>\n<p>As fire gutted the furniture workshop, police rushed to intervene with five firefighting trucks.   <\/p>\n<p>Destroyed items are estimated at Rwf400 million.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39240 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ashes-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39239 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ubwo_polisi_a51d-bd2fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39238 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pol-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39237 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/imashini_nyi9d7d-98409.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1041\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qae_syVudGI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Fire has gutted Gisozi furniture workshop located in Gasabo district, Kigali City leaving equipment including cupboards, timber, doors, machines and mattresses burnt. }  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44171"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44171"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}