By Oluwatosin Maliki
In a tragic incident, a fire outbreak has reportedly claimed the life of one person, which occurred in the early hours of Monday, at a residential building in the Adealu area of Lagos State.
This was issued in a statement by the Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, on Monday.
According to the Lagos Fire Service boss, the fire engulfed the upper floor of a storey building with four flats, while the timely intervention of emergency responders helped to curtail it from spreading.
Unfortunately, a yet-to-be-identified male adult was a victim of the fire and was reportedly said to be dead as of the time the emergency responders arrived the scene.
She stated, “We received a distress call at about 04:56hrs of a fire outbreak at 49, Ogunjebe Street, Adealu Bus Stop, Dopemu-Agege, Lagos. It is a Fire met well alight at the upper floor of a storey building consisting of four flats of two bedrooms used as residents. The Fire was however confined to the rear flat at the upper floor where it emanated before eventually being put out”.
“The building is a two-bedroom flat with household contents in it and one male adult was recovered (suspected dead).”
Margaret further noted that, “The supposed cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained as fire fighting operation has been concluded while the investigation is ongoing to unravel the cause of the fire.”
Quest Times also gathered that the Emergency responders at the scene of the fire included; Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service as well as the Ambulance Service.
In a similar event, a diesel-laden truck caught fire in the Ojota area, which was immediately controlled by the fire service team with no casualties recorded.
The situation in Ojota is under control, as the peddler truck conveying AGO inward Ketu that went on flame has been extinguished.