Fire has gutted a section of the timber and furniture market located along the Opolo axis of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
The inferno wrecked havoc on some of the shops destroying goods especially foams worth millions of naira.
It also damaged some commercial tricycles and furniture which were on display for sale.
It was gathered from the traders in the area that the fire started at about 4.30am on Thursday shortly after a businessman identified as F-Man offloaded his truckload of foams.
One of the victims who narrowly escaped death from the fire, Mr. Ikechukwu Isreal, said it started from a point where refuse was burnt the previous day.
“We didn’t know that the area was still hot. So when F-Man offloaded his goods, they were used to cover the burnt refuse. The foams were heaped in sections.
“After sometimes somebody discovered a smoke coming out from under a section of the foam. He called F-Man. But when F-Man lifted one of the foams, the fire exploded and spread.”
He said within seven seconds all the foams heaped around the area were burnt to ashes.
“If this thing had happened when people were sleeping, the entire houses in this area would have all gone. F-Man lost almost his goods. It is unfortunate. I even escaped death by the whiskers,” he added.
It was gathered that it took the intervention of most of the traders in the timber and furniture shops to put out the fire.
They were said to have used jerry cans of water pushed by water vendors to fight the fire.
Fire fighters only arrived the area when the inferno had been put out.
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