{"id":17183,"date":"2025-03-04T09:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17183"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:17:18","slug":"three-children-killed-in-tragic-house-fire-in-kabete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17183","title":{"rendered":"Three Children Killed in Tragic House Fire in Kabete."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-10-og_image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-10-og_image.webp 890w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-10-og_image-480x340.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 890px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A devastating house fire in Kahuho village, Kabete, claimed the lives of three children on Monday afternoon, leaving the community in shock and mourning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kabete police commander Anthony Mbogo confirmed that the victims were aged 14, 5, and 2 years. The fire, believed to have been caused by a gas cylinder explosion, spread rapidly, engulfing two residential houses. Efforts to contain the blaze were hindered by the delayed response of the Kiambu County fire engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boniface Mwangi, the grieving father, recounted the desperate attempts by neighbors and well-wishers to put out the flames, but their efforts were in vain. The tragedy has sparked calls for improved emergency response services in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating house fire in Kahuho village, Kabete, claimed the lives of three children on Monday afternoon, leaving the community in shock and mourning. Kabete police commander Anthony Mbogo confirmed that the victims were aged 14, 5, and 2 years. The fire, believed to have been caused by a gas cylinder explosion, spread rapidly, engulfing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-10-og_image.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17185,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions\/17185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}