{"id":29571,"date":"2021-06-14T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=29571"},"modified":"2021-06-14T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:11:51","slug":"fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment","title":{"rendered":"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong’o Road area – off Waiyaki Way.<\/p>\n

According to eyewitnesses, the fire broke out at midday and quickly escalated to the point where the building’s roof caved in.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, a fire truck and an ambulance arrived at the scene. Access to the building was a challenge owing to the haphazard building plan in the area.<\/p>\n

The firefighters finally accessed the building and quickly worked towards salvaging the building.<\/p>\n

The police arrived and contained residents from going towards the building.<\/p>\n

At the time of publishing, the fire had been contained. No casualties were reported from the occurrence. The cause of the fire is yet to be established.<\/p>\n

There has been a surge in fire cases in Nairobi, especially in informal settlements.<\/p>\n

The most recent inferno was in Nairobi’s Donholm Area, which saw the fire engulf several buildings- A residential building, business premise, and a popular restaurant in the area.<\/p>\n

The National Disaster Operations Centre stated that Nairobi has seen an increase in the rate of fires in urban areas.<\/p>\n

In a previous interview, a County Director of County Fire and Rescue Services cautioned on major causes of fires in buildings namely; electrical faults, cooking equipment, cigarettes, domestic violence, children playing and improvised lanterns.<\/p>\n

He warned residents against the Illegal tapping of electricity and lose connections, and use of adulterated fuel in their paraffin stoves.<\/p>\n

He termed them as the leading causes of infernos in Nairobi apartments and slums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong’o Road area – off Waiyaki Way. According to eyewitnesses, the fire broke out at midday and quickly escalated to the point where the building’s roof caved in. Shortly after, a fire truck and an ambulance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-29571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"\nFire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong'o Road area - off Waiyaki W ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong'o Road area - off Waiyaki W ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-14T14:21:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-14T14:21:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment\"},\"wordCount\":264,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment\",\"name\":\"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-14T14:21:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong'o Road area - off Waiyaki W ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":360,\"caption\":\"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment - kenya","description":"An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong'o Road area - off Waiyaki W ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment","og_description":"An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong'o Road area - off Waiyaki W ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-06-14T14:21:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":360,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment","datePublished":"2021-06-14T14:21:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment"},"wordCount":264,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Kenya","Kenya"],"articleSection":["all news","community","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment","name":"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-14T14:21:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"An inferno on Monday, June 14 2021, burned down a section of an apartment building at Thiong'o Road area - off Waiyaki W ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60c763922a81a.jpg","width":720,"height":360,"caption":"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/fire-burns-down-waiyaki-way-apartment#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fire Burns Down Waiyaki Way Apartment"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}