By Miracle Ogunde
A fire outbreak has gutted a seven-storey commercial building located in the Iddo area of Lagos Island in Lagos state.
The Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, confirmed this to newen, saying the fire started at about 10 am on Thursday.
Adeseye noted that the fire emanated from the archival room of the building which houses commercial banks and a bottling company among other businesses.
“A fire outbreak that occurred on the first floor of a seven-storey commercial building belonging to the AG Leventis, Iddo House, Iddo, via Oyingbo Lagos has been doused by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service,” she said.
“The building occupied by Nigeria Bottling Company PLC, reported the fire at 10:22 hours Thursday at the archive room of about 108 sq/m on the said floor was confined to its origin and successfully put out by the combined efforts of the Sari Iganmu and Ebute Elefun Fire Stations of the agency.”
The LSFRS boss noted that the fire was caused by rising room temperature but no lives were lost in the incident.
“While the cause of the fire is being carried out, preliminary findings are showing traits of self-ignition of the confined archival space as a result of rising room temperature.
“Fortunately, there is no record of casualty in an operation that has since been completed,” Adeseye stated.
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