{"id":11798,"date":"2021-10-15T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=11798"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:56:19","slug":"a-dormitory-in-vihiga-high-school-goes-up-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=11798","title":{"rendered":"A dormitory in Vihiga high school goes up in flames."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Over 200 learners at Vihiga High School are counting losses after a fire razed down their dormitory this morning. According to the Assistant County Commissioner Florence Sitao, the cause for the fire is yet to be established.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">157 learners at Vihiga High School are counting losses after a fire razed down their dormitory this morning. According to the Assistant County Commissioner Florence Sitao, the cause for the fire is yet to be established. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltjccMOcoP\">pic.twitter.com\/ltjccMOcoP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Oliver Mathenge (@OliverMathenge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliverMathenge\/status\/1448982381977817095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County government firefighters responded to a call from the administration and managed to extinguish the entire hell, although property of unknown value had already been destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FB_IMG_1634306711676.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FB_IMG_1634306711676.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FB_IMG_1634306711676-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Students watched in horror as hell ate their stuff after attempts to find mattresses and uniforms failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"574\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot_20211015-150057-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot_20211015-150057-1.jpg 574w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot_20211015-150057-1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Photo courtesy<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirming the incident, Vihiga County Police Commander Benjamin Ong\u2019ombe said the fire had disrupted the school\u2019s normal learning and performance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources disclosed on Friday morning say a similar attempt to burn down the boarding house failed Thursday night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 learners at Vihiga High School are counting losses after a fire razed down their dormitory this morning. According to the Assistant County Commissioner Florence Sitao, the cause for the fire is yet to be established. 157 learners at Vihiga High School are counting losses after a fire razed down their dormitory this morning. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11802,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions\/11802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}