Yesterday, property worth millions
of Naira were, destroyed as fire scraped about 120 shops in the popular Daleko
market in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the fire
started from the vegetable oil section of the market at about 1:50 a.m, hours
after the traders had closed for the day.
Sources said the night guards in the
market raised the alarm which further alerted residents who raced to the scene
to help salvage whatever they could. But their effort proved abortive.
Reports said that the products
stocked in the shops further escalated the fire. But the fire was put out one
and half hours later by men of the Lagos State fire service.
Director of the state fire service,
Mr. Rasaq Fadipe, confirmed the incident, saying: “Immediately I received the
alert, I deployed three water tankers to the scene.
“We would have been able to put out
the fire few minutes after our arrival and more property would have been saved.
But the fire was fuelled by the vegetable oil products stocked in the shops.”
He noted that with professionalism,
they were able to put out the fire at about 2:45 am.
He, however, blamed the cause of the
fire on power surge from the electric cables within the vegetable oil section
of the market.
Fadipe also called for total overall
of the electrical wire in all the markets in the state
Source: Vanguard news
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