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Fire razes Shopping Complex in Lagos



Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in a fire incident that occurred at the Iponri Shopping Complex on Tuesday night.



The fire, according to eye witnesses started around 11:18 pm on Tuesday and burnt about 17 shops before officials of the Lagos State Fire Services battled to put out the raging inferno said to have been triggered by an electrical surge.

A similar incident had occurred in the same shopping complex on March 6, 2014, where two shops burnt before the fire service officials put out the fire.

General Manager, Lagos State Management Authority, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu said the fire burnt several shops resulting in the loss of goods worth millions of naira.

“Immediately the fire started, emergency response plan was activated. The fire was put off after the combined effort of emergency responders. No life was lost but it is pathetic to note that properties worth millions of naira were lost,” he said.

Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe said that the fire started around 11.18 pm, with 17 shops burnt while efforts of the fire service men prevented further damage in the complex.

“We battled the inferno when it was still raging,” he said, adding that officers at the fire service station at Sari-Iganmu were quickly mobilized as they came with their fire service tanker with 10,000 litres of water to quell the raging inferno.

Fadipe explained that because of the magnitude of the inferno, the fire service stations at Ilupeju and Onikan were quickly mobilized with each of the station coming with 10,000 litres of water each which was used in putting out the fire.

He disclosed that most of the items burnt in the 17 shops were generators, with other items such as different types of textiles, plastic materials, among others.

The fire service boss said the inferno was as a result of upsurge of electricity, saying that few days ago, fire had occurred in the complex with two shops razed.

According to him, some of the electric wires in the shopping complex were resting on the shops and that he had told the traders recently to get a good technician to adjust the electric cables from resting on their shops.
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