FIRE GUTS SEVEN-STOREY BUILDING IN LAGOS
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FIRE GUTS SEVEN-STOREY BUILDING IN LAGOS
A seven-storey commercial building in the Iddo area of Lagos Island was gutted by fire on Thursday.
PUNCH Online learnt from a statement by the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, that the fire started at about 10 am.
Adeseye noted that the fire originated in the archival room of the building, which houses commercial banks, a bottling company, and other businesses.
She said, “A fire outbreak on the first floor of a seven-storey commercial building belonging to AG Leventis, Iddo House, Iddo, via Oyingbo, Lagos, has been extinguished by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service.
“The building, occupied by Nigeria Bottling Company PLC, reported the fire at 10:22 am on Thursday. The fire, which started in an archival room of about 108 square metres on the first floor, was confined to its origin and successfully put out by the combined efforts of the Sari Iganmu and Ebute Elefun Fire Stations of the agency.”
The LSFRS boss noted that the fire was caused by rising room temperature, but no lives were lost in the incident.
“While investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing, preliminary findings suggest self-ignition in the confined archival space due to rising room temperature.
“Fortunately, there are no reported casualties in an operation that has since been completed,” Adeseye stated.
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