Fire this Thursday morning gutted a building at the popular Balogun Market in Lagos Island.
The fire started in one of the market buildings earlier this morning.
No one could adduce cause to the fire as of the time of filing this report.
Business owners estimated that goods worth millions of naira were destroyed in the three-storey building housing warehouses for clothes and shoes.
Fire guts Balogun Market in Lagos
On ground responding to the incident, officials and officers of the Lagos State Emergency Agency, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Services said they rushed to the place in response to distress calls concerning the fire incident.
A statement by the Permanent Secretary of the agency, Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, titled: “Situation report on the fire outbreak at Broad Street, Lagos Island,” said: “The agency responded to distress calls concerning the fire incident involving some shops on the ground floor of a three-story building.
“The cause of the fire cannot be ascertained as no casualty was involved.”
At the site battling the raging inferno were the agency’s team alongside two Lagos State fire service trucks, two LRU fire trucks and police.
The South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said that the building housed warehouses and firefighters encountered some challenge gaining access to the building because of the iron bars.
He, however, said the fire has been brought under total control and prevented from spreading to other buildings.
