A seven-storey commercial building located in the Iddo area of Lagos Island, was on Thursday gutted by fire.
PUNCH Metro learnt from a statement by the Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, that the fire started at about 10 am.
Adeseye noted that the fire emanated from the archival room of the building which houses commercial banks and a bottling company among other businesses.
She said, “A fire outbreak that occurred on the first floor of a seven-storey commercial building belonging to the AG Leventis, Iddo House, Iddo, via Oyingbo Lagos has been doused by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service.
“The building occupied by Nigeria Bottling Company PLC, reported the fire at 10:22 hours Thursday at the archive room of about 108 sq/m on the said floor was confined to its origin and successfully put out by the combined efforts of the Sari Iganmu and Ebute Elefun Fire Stations of the agency.”
The LSFRS boss noted that the fire was caused by rising room temperature but no lives were lost in the incident.
“While the cause of the fire is being carried out, preliminary findings are showing traits of self-ignition of the confined archival space as a result of rising room temperature.
“Fortunately, there is no record of casualty in an operation that has since been completed,” Adeseye stated.
Our correspondent learnt from an incident report signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, that the fire started at about 1 pm and left property whose worth was not ascertained destroyed. (Punch)