By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
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A devastating fire outbreak occurred at petrol station in Wau town, the capital of Western Bahr-el-Ghazal State, destroying two offices and two cars.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The acting police commissioner of WBGs, Maj. Gen. Simon Yasi, told No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper<\/em><\/strong> via phone from Wau that the incident transpired on at 3:00 p. m on Wednesday.<\/p>\n According to the police commissioner, the source of the fire remains unknown.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fire did not cause any casualties against citizens in the town, only burning two offices and the two cars belonging to the owner of the petrol station,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe called the owner of the petrol station to come and give a clear reason why the fire caught the patrol station, but he was never clear,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n \u201cAs for now, we don\u2019t really know the cause of the fire outbreak, but we are still investigating how it erupted, and afterwards, we will call the owner again to give us reasons behind the fire,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n Maj. Gen. Yasi further noted that the fire was contained from escalating to surrounding residential and installations in the circumference of the petrol station.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a market. It would have been risky if the civil defense never rushed to put out the flames,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n Simon emphasized that Wau is totally at risk with numerous petrol stations established near market areas and schools.<\/p>\n He echoed that they have severally discussed the risk of establishing petrol stations near areas of livelihood, saying actions will soon be taken.<\/p>\n The police commissioner said they will have a security meeting this week to brainstorm on the issue of the petrol stations.<\/p>\n \u201cIn our daily or weekly security meetings, we reported that patrol stations must not be allocated within the area because of incidents like what happened on Wednesday, especially in areas where there is a market, which can harm people,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n Maj. Gen. Yasi stressed that they recommend petrol stations be far from the areas where people are living.<\/p>\n Last year, the national minister of petroleum, Puot Kang Chol warned against construction of fuel stations near residential areas, markets, hospitals, and schools.<\/p>\n He said, apart from the risk of fire, there are pollutions against citizens caused by gases produced by the fuel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David A devastating fire outbreak occurred at petrol station in Wau town, the capital of Western Bahr-el-Ghazal State, destroying two offices and two cars. The acting police commissioner of WBGs, Maj. Gen. Simon Yasi, told No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper via phone from Wau that the[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Flames-rise-as-a-petrol-station-catches-fire-Courtesy-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21960,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions\/21960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}