BREAKING: Fire outbreak at plank market Ogba in Lagos
The popular plank market at Odo Eran Bus stop, Ogba, Ikeja in Lagos is on fire.
According to eyewitness, men of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service are currently battling the inferno.
Residents were said to have alerted the State’s Fire Service and Control portal at 03:37am Sunday.
The Ikeja and Alausa Fire Stations are responding with backup from other emergency responders due to the intensity and nature of the combustible materials involved in the fire.
Firefighting operations are still ongoing without any reported injury or death as at the time of filing this report.
The Director of the agency, Mrs Adeseye Margaret in a statement issued on Sunday morning, assured the public that the strategy being deployed to control the burning inferno with copious water and chemical foam compound would not allow it to affect any nearby property or life.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
Margaret said that the agency’s officials and others “remain on top of the situation and will provide necessary updates as situation demands”.
