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.\n<\/p>\n
The incident, which occurred on Wednesday, also threatened about 20 shops within the building before firefighters arrived and brought the inferno under control.\n<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
The service\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Hassan Adekunle, disclosed this in a statement made available to PUNCH Metro<\/em> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n According to the statement, firefighters immediately commenced intensive operations on arrival and successfully brought the fire under control at 6:10 am.<\/p>\n 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.\n<\/p>\n The statement read, \u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n \u201cSmoke was noticed coming from one of the rooms some moments after electricity was restored to the area.\u201d\n<\/p>\n The agency disclosed that the affected room contained a large quantity of used rubber slippers and flip-flops reportedly gathered by scavengers for recycling. <\/p>\n \u201cThe combustible nature of the materials contributed significantly to the rapid spread of the fire,\u201d it stated.\n<\/p>\n However, the fire service noted that the exact circumstances surrounding the ignition remained subject to further investigation.\n<\/p>\n The Chief Fire Officer, Alabi Muhammed, commended the firefighters for their dedication, professionalism and determination in containing the inferno.\n<\/p>\n He also warned residents, traders and recycling operators against storing combustible materials carelessly, particularly rubber products, plastics, foam and other highly flammable items.\n<\/p>\n Muhammed urged members of the public to ensure that such materials were kept in properly ventilated and designated areas, away from potential sources of ignition.<\/p>\n He further emphasised the importance of promptly reporting fire incidents to enable firefighters to respond early and minimise damage.\n<\/p>\n \u201cEarly notification gives firefighters a better opportunity to minimise damage and protect surrounding properties,\u201d the Chief Fire Officer stressed.\n<\/p>\n The incident comes barely two weeks after a fire outbreak destroyed a building comprising three-bedroom flats in Kangile Village, Ilorin South Local Government Area of the state, on October 26.\n <\/p>\n Source: <\/p>\n 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… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}