Eight rooms destroyed as fire guts Kwara building

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An early-morning fire has destroyed eight rooms in a residential building in the Sango area of Ilorin, Kwara State, with firefighters linking the cause to Read More:…

An early-morning fire has destroyed eight rooms in a residential building at Alangua Compound, opposite Kulende Market, in the Sango area of Ilorin, Kwara State.

The incident, which occurred on Wednesday, also threatened about 20 shops within the building before firefighters arrived and brought the inferno under control.

The Kwara State Fire Service said it received a distress call at 5:16 am and arrived at the scene at 5:32am, by which time the building had already been engulfed in flames.

The service’s Public Relations Officer, Hassan Adekunle, disclosed this in a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on Wednesday.

According to the statement, firefighters immediately commenced intensive operations on arrival and successfully brought the fire under control at 6:10 am.

Giving an account of the possible cause of the incident, the service said preliminary investigations indicated that the fire occurred shortly after electricity was restored to the area.

The statement read, “The fire affected eight rooms, while other adjoining buildings were successfully protected from the spread of the flames through the swift and coordinated intervention of our personnel.

“Smoke was noticed coming from one of the rooms some moments after electricity was restored to the area.”

The agency disclosed that the affected room contained a large quantity of used rubber slippers and flip-flops reportedly gathered by scavengers for recycling.

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