The front section of the
six-storey building gutted by fire on Tuesday in Lagos Island has collapsed,
killing a policeman.
According to NAN, a part of the
six-storey building located at 43 Martins street, Lagos Island, collapsed
around 8:30pm on Tuesday.
The incident happened as firemen
were battling to contain the inferno.
A part of the burning building
collapsed on the policeman while he was trying to control the surging crowd.
NAN quoted Olanrewaju Elegushi,
special adviser to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos central business
district, as saying the policeman died in hospital following injuries sustained
in the building collapse.
The fire outbreak started at 9am.
Speaking at the scene, Olufemi
Oke-Osanyintolu, director general, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency
(LASEMA), emergency officials were able
to stop the fire from spreading to other buildings.
“We received call earlier this
morning that there is a fire incident that involves two multistorey buildings
at Martins Street and Dosumu Street in Lagos,” he said.
“Immediately we activated our
emergency response plan and other stakeholders in managing emergency moved to
the scene.
“We are able to locate and
localise 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.”
He appealed to Lagos citizens,
especially the traders at Lagos Island markets, not to panic as there was no
casualty involved in the incident.
He, however, pleaded with traders
to stop putting generators and petrol inside their shops to avoid similar
accidents in the area.
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.
Lanre Mojola, director general,
Lagos State Safety Commission, attributed crowd control as a major challenge at
scenes of fire and other accidents.
Mojola said Lagos State emergency
team and other stakeholders were working hard in ensuring that the fire did not
affect any other building in the area.
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