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Nyeri county fire engines ‘slept’ as locals struggled to put out fire

It is not yet clear whether the newly acquired engines are among the ones that stalled as fire destroyed property. [Standard]

Fierce fire left more than 40 families homeless in Nyeri after the county fire department failed to respond.

Frustrated residents were forced to use buckets to try and salvage their property worth millions in vain as the 2pm fire spread fast destroying the wooden structures at Kamkwa's Jericho estate.

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