Several items worth several millions of naira were destroyed on Wednesday morning when a raging fire destroyed a complex housing five fully detached warehouses beside Nigerian Breweries, Iganmu, Apapa area of Lagos State.
The fire, according to eyewitnesses, began in the early hours of Wednesday. As of the time of filing this report, the cause of the incident had not been determined.
Permanent Secretary of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Okey-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the incident, said there was no record of casuality.
According to Oke-Osanyitolu, “Upon arrival at the incident scene, a warehouse within a complex housing 5 fully detached warehouses was found to have been razed by fire.
“Also totally burnt out was a stand-alone diesel storage tank, a 33,000ltr tanker with no registration number, a mini tanker with registration number XV555-FKJ and a fiat bus with registration number unknown.
“No life was lost and no injuries sustained to anyone as a result of the incident.
“The fire has been extinguished, (11 am) while dampening down is ongoing.
“However, the walls and pillars of the warehouse have been seriously affected by the intensity of the fire leading to various cracks and imminent collapse of the structure, the agency’s excavator will be required to pull down the warehouse structure in order to avert any crash on the responders and users of the environment.”