A residential building in the Government Residential Area of Ikeja Local Government, Lagos State caught fire in the early hours of Friday.
The Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Adeseye Margret, disclosed this in a statement made available to PUNCH Online.
Our correspondent gathered that the fire started from one of the rooms on the upper floor of the duplex escalating into four other rooms.
However, the quick intervention of the men of the Lagos Fire Service helped to contain the escalation of the fire whose cause was yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.
The statement read, “At 04:11 hours, we received a distress call from a residential building located at A 3, Michael Ogun Street, GRA Ikeja, Lagos about a fire accident.
“It was a fire met well alight at the upper floor of a duplex building used as a residence. The Fire was however confined to the upper floor where it emanated from one of the rooms before eventually being put out.
“Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service from Ikeja and Alausa Fire Stations. Nigerian Police from Ikeja Division were present to contain the outbreak. Five rooms on the upper floor of the duplex building with household contents in it.
“The supposed cause of the fire is unknown at present as investigation is ongoing to reveal it. There was no casualty involved.”
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