{"id":15563,"date":"2026-01-10T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/15563\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:00:31","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-building-on-luthuli-avenue-nairobi-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/15563\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out at building on Luthuli Avenue, Nairobi CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/06c11c5f-a0f4-43bf-a552-ec424ebfa48a.png\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>Fire breaks out on the building in Nairobi\/COURTESY\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A fire has broken out at a commercial building along Luthuli Avenue in Nairobi\u2019s Central Business District, near the Munyu Road junction.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, reported late Saturday evening, sent plumes of smoke into the CBD as traders and pedestrians scrambled to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Fire engines and emergency crews have been deployed to the scene, with efforts underway to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire and extent of damage are yet to be established, and there were no immediate reports of injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have urged motorists to avoid the area as rescue operations continue.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out on the building in Nairobi\/COURTESY\u00a0 A fire has broken out at a commercial building along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,351,352,98,100,353,101,350,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-15563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-kenya-news","10":"tag-star","11":"tag-star-news","12":"tag-star-news-kenya","13":"tag-star-newspaper-kenya","14":"tag-the-star","15":"tag-the-star-kenya","16":"tag-the-star-newspaper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}