Barely
48 hours after two buildings were razed in Ebute Meta area of Lagos, a
storey building was on Thursday gutted by fire on Igando Road, Ikotun
area of the state.
It was learnt that the fire which torched the
building on 64, Igando Road, Unity Bus Stop, Ikotun, was caused by an
electrical fault on the first floor.
Our correspondent who visited the scene observed that
the fire destroyed over half of the first floor which has four-room
self-contained apartments.
It was gathered that the inferno which started some
minutes after 10am spread quickly as a set of cushion chairs on the
corridor where the electrical fault occurred caught fire.
Eyewitnesses said two children whose parents were not
around when the fire started were trapped in the building but were
evacuated by neighbours with a ladder through the window of their
apartment.
One of the victims, Anthony Bamidele, said the quick
intervention of firefighters of the Lagos State Fire Service prevented
the whole building from being consumed by the ravaging fire.
Anthony said, “As soon as I heard the spark, I went
outside to see what was happening and surprisingly, I saw that there was
fire already. Before, I came back from where I went to get a bowl of
water to quench it the whole place had gone up in flames.
“I immediately dashed to my apartment to save my
two-month-old baby and my other two children. They were evacuated
through the entrance of the backyard.”
Anthony’s wife, Jennifer, said the incident was a big loss to her especially because it came at the dawn of the New Year.
“I thank God that none of us sustained any form of injury or died as a result of the inferno,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Fire and Safety Service
has said it quenched no fewer than 33 fires across the state between
Tuesday and Thursday.
Punch
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