Fadipe told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the service received a distress call at11:35 a.m. that a tank farm belonging to Stallionaire Nigeria Ltd was on fire.
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An eyewitness, who spoke to NAN, said the fire was first noticed at about 7.15pm in one of the duplexes before spreading to others
This incident is coming barely two weeks after a similar incident wherein a middle aged man was rescued alive by the LASEMA Response Team and other emergency agencies at the opposite end of the same environment.
The explosion occurred at Second Coming gas plant in Magodo area of Lagos State
It took the combined efforts of the Lagos State Fire Service, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Federal Road Safety Corps and the National Emergency Management Agency to bring the fire under control
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Confirming the incident, Kehinde Adebayo, the spokesman of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, however, said no life was lost in the incident
The family was burnt to death in their pharmacy store, which also serves as their home
The fire was said to have started at about 2am when electricity supply was restored to the area
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the fire was noticed at the make-shift shops at about 11.20pm, shortly after electricity supply was taken by the providers, Ikeja Electric
The increase in death toll was confirmed by the spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye
Ibrahim Farinloye, the NEMA spokesman, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
LASEMA, however, said the woman’s other daughter, a five-year-old, was rescued alive and was immediately taken to the General Hospital, Ikeja by the Lagos State Ambulance Service
The cause of the fire at the palace in central Lagos was not yet known as at press time
According to information available to The Eagle Online, the accident occurred at about 3am
NAN reports that the Iroko tree is located around a traditional worship place
The fire outbreak was recorded on Saturday
A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who visited the scene of the fire reports that officials of the Lagos State Fire Service Department battled the fire, which started at about 7am, for many hours before finally bringing it under control
The fire affecting a three-story building, destroying properties worth millions of Naira
George made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lagos at the ongoing national training for tanker drivers, organised by Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers