Fire has gutted a residential building on Ilabere Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu made this known in a statement on Wednesday, Freelanews reports.
Oke-Osanyintolu, who stated that the fire began in the early hours of Wednesday, said officials of the LASEMA response team were deployed to the scene of the fire incident as soon as it was reported.
She added that LASEMA was working with personnel of the Lagos State Fire Service to prevent the fire from spreading to adjoining buildings.
The statement read, “The agency has activated its response plan to the above location. A combined team of agency LRT and the Lagos State Fire Service are taking immediate action to quell the residential fire which appears to be spreading rapidly to adjoining properties.”
Meanwhile, there has been no report of any casualty to the fire at the time of filing this report.
This is a developing story.
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