Goods worth millions of naira were destroyed when fire gutted a three-storey building housing warehouses with clothes and shoes in the popular Balogun market on Broad Street on Lagos Island.
By Emma Ogbuehi
Goods worth millions of naira were destroyed when fire gutted a three-storey building housing warehouses with clothes and shoes in the popular Balogun market on Broad Street on Lagos Island.
The exact cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained but it was gathered that the inferno started from one of the shops of the textiles and shoe building located on Gbajumo, at about 12.45 am.
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Firemen from the Federal and State Services reportedly battled for three hours before it was put out.
The South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Ibrahim Farinloye, said that the building housed warehouses and firefighters encountered some challenge gaining access to the building because of the iron bars.
He, however, said the fire has been brought under total control without spreading to other building. He added that there had been no record of loss of life.
He said, ” Presently, the fire has been brought under total control. It has been contained without spreading to other buildings.
“No injury or death has been noticed accessibility to the source of fire is still very difficult but it is confined to the source”
Corroborating the incident, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), in a statement, said though the cause of the fire could not be immediately ascertained, no casualty was involved in the incident.
LASEMA chief, Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, said the response team including the Lagos State Fire Service trucks and the police are presently at the incident working together to subdue the inferno.