{"id":3294,"date":"2020-01-13T23:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2020-01-13T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:03:51","slug":"another-fire-at-old-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"Another fire at Old Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shamir Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>With four craft\nvendors still reeling from the devastating effects of a fire which razed their\nshops at the Old Fort Craft, Montego Bay exactly a month to the day, comes the\nnews of the destruction of another shop and damage to others by fire of unknown\norigin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMi pressure gone up! A don\u2019t know how me ago manage,\u201d said\na traumatized Ivory Brown, who operates the shop at the Old Fort Craft Market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was the one who built the shop. My shop was the most\nstocked shop in this craft market. I had craft items, paintings, and jewelry\nand now I have lost everything; everything, I don\u2019t save a thing,\u201d she\nlamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Brown further explained that the shop was her only source\nof income, so it is a heavy blow to her as she does not have the means to\nrecover from such a heavy loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to manage. I don\u2019t have what to\nstart over with,\u201d she told the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">District Officer of the Freeport Fire Station, Rohan Cole,\nsaid they received a call about 11:38p.m. and responded with two units which\neventually quelled the fire, but only after it destroyed Miss Brown\u2019s shop and\ncontents, and damaged two other shops in close proximity to hers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Brown is of the view\nthat the fire may have been the work of arsonists, a view that has not been\nsubstantiated by fire personnel or the police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loss is estimated at 2.5 million dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire in December left damage in excess of 10 million\ndollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamir Brown With four craft vendors still reeling from the devastating effects of a fire which razed their shops at the Old Fort Craft, Montego Bay exactly a month to the day, comes the news of the destruction of another shop and damage to others by fire of unknown origin. \u201cMi pressure gone up! A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1702,271,1701],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-craaft-vendors","tag-fire","tag-old-fort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}