{"id":7825,"date":"2018-01-31T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2018-01-31T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:14:29","slug":"fire-erupts-in-environment-ministry-office-and-destroys-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/fire-erupts-in-environment-ministry-office-and-destroys-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire erupts in Environment Ministry office and destroys records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 12 noon, fire has broken out in the environment ministry compound located in the centre of Bujumbura. The room where all the office equipment and records of the ministry are kept has caught fire.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7816\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7816\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Archives-d\u00e9truites-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The burnt compound of the Ministry of Environment\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Archives-d\u00e9truites-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Archives-d\u00e9truites-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Archives-d\u00e9truites.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burnt compound of the Ministry of Environment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAll Managing Directors\u2019 offices had their equipment kept in the burnt room. Almost all the ministry\u2019s records went up in smoke,\u201d says Simon Sindayihebura, permanent secretary at the ministry of environment.<\/p>\n<p>Sindayihebura congratulates the ministry\u2019s staff that tried to take out some supplies. \u201cThe ministry\u2019s personnel have tried to evacuate some office equipment but the fire was very fierce and even the storeroom was closed. It was not easy\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>He says the civil protection police were alerted but couldn\u2019t save many things in the room: \u201cThey succeeded to protect other offices but the storeroom was already ablaze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sindayihebura says the civil protection police have initiated investigations to know the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 12 noon, fire has broken out in the environment ministry compound located in the centre of Bujumbura. The room where all the office equipment and records of the ministry are kept has caught fire. \u201cAll Managing Directors\u2019 offices had their equipment kept in the burnt room. Almost all the ministry\u2019s records went up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[1326,1327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}