Policeman dies as 2 multi-storey buildings gutted by fire in Lagos Island

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Fire fighters as well as other emergency responders are still battling to put out the fire on Martins Street. (Twitter/ @rrslagos767)
Fire fighters as well as other emergency responders are still battling to put out the fire on Martins Street. (Twitter/ @rrslagos767)

Two multi-storey buildings were gutted by fire at different locations in Lagos Island on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 destroying goods and property worth millions of naira in the ever busy commercial city centre.
A five-storey building situated at Oluwole Market, adjacent to Mandillas Building, and another three-storey building located at Dosumu Street, both in Lagos Island, were burnt on Tuesday.

While the fire at the three-storey building on Dosumu street was successfully put off, fire servicemen were still battling to extinguish the fire raging at the six-storey building at Martins Street as at 7:40p.m. on Tuesday.

Fire fighters as well as other emergency responders are still battling to put out the fire on Martins Street. (Twitter/ @rrslagos767)
Fire fighters as well as other emergency responders are still battling to put out the fire on Martins Street. (Twitter/ @rrslagos767)

As at the time of filing this report, the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad (RRS) posted on it twitter page (@rrslagos767) that the incident had claimed the life of a policeman from a nearby division.

"We are still at the scene of the fire incident. Though it has reduced to a reasonable extent, Efforts are still on to put it out completely. Partial building collapse occurred during the process which claimed the life of a policeman from a nearby division." they twitted.

Fire fighters as well as other emergency responders are still battling to put out the fire on Martins Street.

(Twitter/ @rrslagos767)
Fire fighters as well as other emergency responders are still battling to put out the fire on Martins Street. (Twitter/ @rrslagos767)

According to NAN reports, a combined team of servicemen from Lagos Fire Service, Federal Fire Service, Julius Berger, UBA and Union Bank were at the scene battling to extinguish the fire.

Confirming the reports, the Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said at the scene that emergency officials were able to localise the fire and stopped it from spreading to other buildings.

“We received a call earlier this morning that there is a fire incident that involves two multistorey buildings at Martins Street and Dosumu Street in Lagos.

“Immediately we activated our emergency response plan and other stakeholders in managing emergency moved to the scene.

“We are able to locate and localised the fire but the major challenge we are having is access to major source of the fire; secondly, we discovered that they stored highly inflammable materials in the building.

”The way the building is positioned is adjacent and interlocked to the centre area, but we make use of combined team method to localise the fire which spread from one shop to the other but we are trying to put it off now,” Oke-Osanyintolu said.

Olufemi appealed to Lagosians, especially traders at Lagos Island markets, not to panic.
He, however, pleaded with traders to stop putting generators and petrol inside their shops to avoid similar accidents in the area.

Chief (Mrs) Folashade Ojo, Iyaloja of Lagos, who also visited the scene, called for regular public power supply to prevent indiscriminate use of generators causing fire outbreaks.

Olanrewaju Elegushi, Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Lagos Central Business District, sympathised with the affected traders and also said the state would soon provide fire hydrants in the area to enable the servicemen have access to wate

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