Lagos Fire Service to the rescue as Ojo Market gutted by inferno

The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has put out an early Sunday morning inferno and saved goods worth millions of naira at Ojo market.

The agency said that the fire was reported at 07:00 hours through a run in call by two men on motorcycle who besieged the nearby Ojo Fire Station, adding that its operatives mobilized with them to the scene before the arrival of back up to eventually compliment efforts to put out the raging inferno.

“The inferno,, which was met well alight and had done damage was however curtailed from wrecking further havoc to remaining shops and adjoining properties,” the Fire Service said.

It added that the cause of the fire was still being investigated and will be made known once ascertained.

“There was no reported case of injury nor death but that of restiveness by some unscrupulous elements who want to take advantage of the fire to loot, but officers of the Nigerian Army from the Nigerian Military Cantonment, Ojo did well to save situation,” it added.