One Feared Dead In Lagos Fire

One person has been feared dead in a fire that happened in the early hours of Monday at a residential building in the Adealu area of Lagos State.

The Director, of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, revealed this in a statement issued.

According to the Lagos Fire Service boss, the fire engulfed the upper floor of a storey building with four flats but the swift intervention of emergency responders helped to curtail its spread.

However, one yet-to-be-identified male adult was a victim of the fire and was suspected to be dead as of the time the emergency responders got to the scene.

She said, “We received a distress call at about 04:56hrs of a fire outbreak at 49, Ogunjebe Street, Adealu Bus Stop, Dopemu-Agege, Lagos. It is a Fire met well alight at the upper floor of a storey building consisting of four flats of two bedrooms used as residents. The Fire was however confined to the rear flat at the upper floor where it emanated before eventually being put out.

“The building is a two-bedroom flat with household contents in it and one male adult was  recovered (suspected dead).”