{"id":9339,"date":"2011-06-10T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2011-06-10T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:53:54","slug":"fire-destroys-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/fire-destroys-aid","title":{"rendered":"Fire Destroys AID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9340\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9340 \" title=\"aid-fire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/aid-fire-250x167.jpg\" alt=\"Fire at AID\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/aid-fire-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/aid-fire-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/aid-fire.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Nassau Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Automotive Industrial  Distributors (AID) on Wulff Road was  destroyed by a fire, which  reportedly started in the warehouse section  of the building late  Thursday afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The blaze forced a shutdown of the immediate area and at one point came dangerously close to the nearby Shell gas station.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police closed Wulff Road from the Marathon Road roundabout to Mackey Street and directed all traffic away from the area.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Officials said all employees were safely evacuated after the fire started shortly after 4 p.m.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One  of the chief concerns for authorities as well as for residents  of the  area was that the fire was being fueled by flammable material  in AID, a  popular home and auto parts establishment that has been in  the community  for decades.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>There was no immediate estimate of the damage and it was unclear what started the blaze.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is the latest of several major fires that occurred in recent months.\u00a0 The largest fire was the one that ripped through a portion of Bay Street on February 14.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automotive Industrial Distributors (AID) on Wulff Road was destroyed by a fire, which reportedly started in the warehouse section of the building late Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[],"class_list":["post-9339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}