{"id":6395,"date":"2011-02-17T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2011-02-17T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:15:14","slug":"no-lessons-learned-since-straw-market-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/no-lessons-learned-since-straw-market-fire","title":{"rendered":"No Lessons Learned Since Straw Market Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the devastating fire that destroyed the Betty K building and  others along East Bay Street on Monday, downtown businesspersons have little good to say about the competence of Bahamian firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Many have told the Tribune newspaper that a faster response time and better organisation is  needed to prevent such significant damage in the future.<\/p>\n<p>One would think that was determined over ten years ago in the fire that burned down Nassau&#8217;s notorious straw market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devastating fire that destroyed the Betty K building and other structures along East Bay Street on Monday proved that government firefighters learned nothing from the straw market blaze in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40,142],"class_list":["post-6395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-government","tag-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}