One Confirmed Dead As Fire Gut Building in Lagos

A fire at a residential structure in the Adealu neighborhood of Lagos State early on Monday morning has left one person dead.

This was revealed by Margaret Adeseye, the director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, in a statement provided to PUNCH Online.

The head of the Lagos Fire Service said that although the fire covered the upper floor of a four-story building, emergency personnel’ prompt action helped to contain its spread.

Nevertheless, when rescue personnel arrived on the scene, one adult male victim who has not yet been identified was believed to have perished in the fire.

She said, “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).”

The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained by the Fire Service team as of the time of filling this report.

“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,” Adeseye noted.

Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and the Ambulance Service were among the emergency responders on the scene of the fire.

In a similar vein, a diesel-laden truck caught fire in the Ojota neighborhood as well, but the fire department crew managed to put it out without claiming any lives.

 “Meanwhile, the situation in Ojota is under control as the peddler truck conveying AGO inward Ketu that went on flame has been extinguished,” she concluded.