sad: Fire Guts Warehouse, 17 Vehicles in Lagos

For the second time in three days, Lagos recorded another inferno yesterday when in two different incidents, a warehouse containing goods worth millions of naira and a mechanic workshop with about 17 vehicles, were gutted by fire at Apapa and Yaba areas of the state respectively.

The incidents bring to 18, the cases of fire that have occurred just this year in Lagos.
While the fire at Apapa occurred at the ever-busy Kirikiri area, the fire incident at Yaba occurred at the densely populated Iwaya area.
The warehouse, located at Mosheshe Industrial Estate, Kirikiri was said to have belonged to Henry and Henry Company.

Although the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, eyewitness report blamed the inferno on the harmattan season.
The fire was finally put off with the assistance of the various tank farms’ fire services, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Lagos State Fire Services.

Meanwhile, the fire at the mechanic workshop that razed 17 vehicles was said to have begun with a spark, which later snowballed into huge flames.

THISDAY gathered that the vehicles were brought in by their owners for repairs.
The intensity of the fire was blamed on the make-shift structures used to construct the mechanic workshop.
The Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Rasaq Fadipe, who confirmed the incidents, said two fire trucks from Kirikiri were on ground to contain the situation.

He also called on members of the public to be safety conscious especially during the harmattan season.