LASEMA curtails fire again as another incident ravages Apongbon Market where the outbreak was said to have emanated from one of the several containerized stores within the market.
Reports revealed that the fire emanated from the roof portion of one of the containerized stores at the market. Cause of the inferno which later escalated to other shops was attributed to power surge.
The inferno which spread across six containerized shops as efforts were ongoing to combat it, eventually consumed eight shops in all before it was eventually extinguished.
Speaking on the incidence, DG/CEO LASEMA Dr. Olufemi Okey-Osanyitolu urged Lagosians to be calm that the fire has been brought under control and completely contained, asserting that recovery and post fire assessment had been conducted as well.
Still commenting, Dr. Okey-Osanyitolu stated that todays market inferno was one too many. He reiterated that the harmatan season, storage of combustible materials and carelessness were mainly responsible for the incessant fires.
Going on, the LASEMA boss noted that a major factor responsible for incessant fires this harmattan season, despite the Agencys relentless public enlightenment efforts, power surge from public electricity power supply, was again fingered as the culprit in todays fire incidence.
He went on to restate the need for everybody to continue to be conscious of the status of their domestic appliances, quality of materials used for their home/business accommodations wirings, as well as the need to switch off all electrical appliances and unplug all air conditioners/coolants not in use at the end of each day after close of business.
He concluded on a note of caution that, emergency management was everyone's business and a such everyone should watchful and cautious in in their dealings to take adequate precaution against anything that can lead to emergencies/disaster because when it happens, it does not exempt anyone.
The fire was successfully extinguished by the LASEMA Response Team in collaboration with its First Responders from RRS, the Lagos State Government and the Federal Fire Services.
Though no casualties were recorded, nor injuries were sustained in the inferno which consumed eight shops stored with food items, properties worth a fortune were destroyed by the fire.
Earlier, LASEMA Response Team recovered an articulated truck laden with a 40feet container involved in a lone accident at about 02:40.00am at Ojota inward Ketu, Lagos.
According to reports, on arrival at the incident site, it was discovered that an articulated truck laden with 40feet container got stuck in between the median while driving inward Ketu from Maryland.
Investigations conducted by the LASEMA Response Team revealed that the immediate cause of the lone accident was due to reckless driving.
No injuries were sustained nor fatalities recorded during the recovery in which the RRS and other responders participated.
In a similar development, LASEMA Response Team recovered an articulated truck conveying a 40feet container at Mile 2, inward Sunrise Bus Stop involved in a lone accident.
It was reported that on arrival at the scene of the incident, it was discovered that a truck conveying a 40feet container with an unknown registration number rammed into a ditch as a result of bad road and fell sideways.
The reported truck after being evacuated from the road, still had its container lying across the only access road leading to the Apapa Port which was later recovered with the deployement of the Agencys heavy duty equipment (Crane) .
However, no loss of lives, nor injuries were recorded in the incident where miscreants and other unforeseen circumstances made access and recovery difficult for the LASEMA Response Team at the incident scene.
The Nigerian Police, RRS, LASTMA and ASEMA Response Team were responders at the scene.
