Fire Razes Building In Lagos As One Dies In Accident Involving Trucks

Officials of the Lagos State Fire Service; Lagos State Emergency Agency as well as other responders including the police battled to put out the fire which gutted a residential building at the Mushin area of Lagos State.

Our corespondent gathered that the fire which started at around 8am on Saturday morning razed down the first floor of the building with many tenants.

The prompt response to the distress calls was said to have saved the whole building from being destroyed completely.

Residents of the building and their neighbours were said to have battled the fire before fire fighters, LASEMA, the police and others arrived to put it out.

Although no life was reportedly lost, the first floor of the building was said to have been destroyed and home appliances and personal belonhings were lost in the fire.

The Director General of LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the fire incident blamed the incident on a cooking gas that was left unattended to.

He said this in a post on the Facebook page of the agency.

It tead “The LASEMA Response Team, LRT was activated to a fire outbreak at 10 Moliki Street, Alafia, Mushin, today, Saturday 29th, August 2020.
Information gathered at the scene revealed that the fire started around 8:00am, and destroyed the entire first floor of the building.

“The cause of the Inferno is attributed to negligence on the part of the tenant who was cooking with a gas and left it unattended.”

The fire was put out just as a woman reportedly died in an accident involving two trucks at around Onipanu area.

The accident also happened on Saturday morning. A mini truck was said to have rammed into a stationary truck and the impact of the accident killed a female occupant of the mini truck while another woman in the same truck was injured.

The DG LASEMA said, “A fully loaded mini truck with unknown registration number laden with pepper lost control while on motion and rammed into a containerised truck with registration number T- 1202 LA parked at the layby.

“However, an adult female occupant of the mini truck lost her life and one adult female sustained several degree of injuries and was administered first aid treatment by the agency’s paramedics at the scene before being taken to General Hospital.”