{"id":13986,"date":"2025-03-05T17:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T09:41:24","slug":"revelers-survive-fire-outbreak-at-sunrise-hotel-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/revelers-survive-fire-outbreak-at-sunrise-hotel-in-kampala\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Bodies Recovered ,15 Revelers Survive Fire Outbreak At Sunrise Hotel And Agenda 2000 In Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two bodies were recovered and 15 l revelers escaped with injuries as a devastating fire gutted Sunrise Hotel along Khamis Road in downtown Kampala destroying property in millions of shillings .  In another fire outbreak at Agenda 2000 along Kireka -Namugongo raod , property in millions of shillings was destroyed .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community effort was at play as citizens help the residents at  the Sunrise hotel to escape through windows some without clothes . The same harambee effort was exhibited at Agenda 2000 as locals helped shop owners to remove their merchandise as the wild fire spread .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"317\" data-attachment-id=\"13988\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/revelers-survive-fire-outbreak-at-sunrise-hotel-in-kampala\/fly-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fly-3.png\" data-orig-size=\"575,317\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fly-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fly-3.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fly-3.png\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fly-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fly-3.png 575w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fly-3.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the two fire was yet to be established but the fire brigade managed to put out the fire before it spread to neighboring structures .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters  contained the blaze in time , saving many lives .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two bodies were recovered and 15 l revelers escaped with injuries as a devastating fire gutted Sunrise Hotel along Khamis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sunrise.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14381,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/tycoon-sudhir-ruparelias-only-son-rajiv-dies-in-motor-accident-at-age-35\/","url_meta":{"origin":13986,"position":0},"title":"Tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia&#8217;s Only  Son Rajiv Dies In Motor Accident At Age 35","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"May 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Rajiv Ruparelia (35), the only son of Ugandan tycoon \u00a0Sudhir Ruparelia, has died in a motor accident along the Kampala southern bypass . 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