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Lagos records four fire incidents in two hours

There have been a lot of fire incidents in different parts of Nigeria of recent. But Lagos State alone recorded four fire incidents within two hours on Friday.

Photo credit: Punch Newspaper

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According to the Punch Newspaper, Lagos State recorded four fire incidents in different locations, within two hours on Friday.

Lagos state fire service made it known that it attended to the emergencies between 1.02pm and 3.18pm at a furniture showroom in Badore, Ajah; a burning truck on Third Mainland Bridge and bush fires on Shagamu Road, Odogunyan and International Trade Fair complex, Ojo.

“The wreckage of the burnt truck laden with several bundles of cardboard paper and other combustible materials was recovered by the LASEMA Response Team off. No lives were lost or injuries recorded,” LASEMA said in a statement by the agency’s Public Affairs Officer, Nosa Okunbor.

The statement added that preliminary investigation showed that the fire could have been caused by electrical sparks emanating from the engine.

“Though driver of the burnt truck could not be found at the scene of the incident to further explain how the incident started and escalated to uncontrollable level, the fire was finally extinguished by the Federal Fire Service and the Lagos State Fire Service,” it added.

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