By Aisha Cole (NAN)
\nThe Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu has confirmed that a total of 17 people sustained injuries, including a pregnant woman and firefighter at another inferno in Lagos.
\nOke-Osanyintolu made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Martins fire outbreak scene at about 9:30 p,m. in Lagos on Wednesday.
\nAccording to him, a total of 17 people sustained injuries, 15 were treated at the scene and discharged, while the remaining two a pregnant woman and a firefighter had been hospitalised.
\nHe said that the pregnant woman injury was as a result of shock she experienced and the Lagos State Fire Service Staff (firefighter) sustained injuries from one of the collapsed building.
\n\u201cA total of nine buildings were severely affected, four had already collapsed and being leveled to ground zero having failed integrity tests.
\n\u201dThe remaining five buildings also affected will be subjected to testing; those that fail will also be demolished.
\n\u201d The bulk of the fire has been curtailed, while some pockets remain along with some residual sparks and the fire services continue in their efforts to fully extinguish the flames,\u201d Oke-Osanyintolu told NAN.
\nHe, however, urged Lagos residents and traders to remain calm and assured them of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu\u2019s commitment to the safety and security of all in the state.
\nAlso speaking, the Director General, Lagos State Safety Commission, (LASSC), Mr Lanre Mojola, expressed disappointment over another fire outbreak, which took place at Martins again in 2020.
\nMojola said that his team were at the market on Jan. 19 to sensitise them on the need to ensure safety in the market to avoid fire outbreak, which lead to lost of lives and valuable goods in 2019.
\nHe said that it was unfortunate that in spite of the awareness another disaster took place again, adding that the commission would increase its sensitisation until the traders comply with the vision and mission of Gov. Sanwo-Olu on safety of lives and property.
\nThe Lagos State\u2019s Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, advised that the safety Commission should be (insistent) during enforcement and avoid being sentimental.
\nHe said that the full assessment of the fire outbreak could not be ascertained now, adding that from what he had seen so far, the collapsed building was a man-made disaster.
\n\u201cThe information we gathered on the ground now is that it was just a generator that was being refuelled, the generator was not even on the first floor, if it had been on the ground floor, it would have been easier for them to curtail it.
\n\u201dCoupled with the lackadaisical attitude of our people, it is when somebody is alive that he can make money, the routes where the emergency services ought to follow to get inside had been blocked with various goods and now it becomes difficult for them to move in.
\n\u201cAs it is now, I think the government will take definite actions but ours on the ground is to make sure that there is no loot to any property and no attack on anybody,\u201d Odumosu said.
\nHe urged traders to stop entering into the affected buildings by trying to take out their goods, adding that once there were weighty movement on a weak foundation that the building could collapse and it might be difficult to rescue victims.
\nOdumosu said that police would be on the ground throughout until the evacuation was completed to ensure that there were no more casualties.
\nThe Acting Director, Lagos State Fire Services, Mrs Margaret Oluseye, said they had been putting out the fire since 10:15a.m.
\nShe urged Nigerians to have attitudinal change towards safety of lives and property to avoid constant fire incident in the state.
\n\u201cI cannot imagine someone fueling generator while the generator was on and the lackadaisical attitude led to the fire outbreak, which have affected many buildings in Martins Street,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Aisha Cole (NAN) The Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu has confirmed that a total of 17 people sustained injuries, including a pregnant woman and firefighter at another inferno in Lagos. Oke-Osanyintolu made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Martins fire outbreak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[65,733,887],"class_list":["post-24131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","tag-fire","tag-lagos","tag-lasema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}