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Fire guts customs office as several vehicles got burnt to ashes

Fire guts customs office as several vehicles got burnt to ashes

At least 20 vehicles are confirmed to have been gutted by fire, at the Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Ikeja, Lagos.

The vehicles, consisting six articulated vehicles,12 cars, and two minibuses, got burnt after the fire broke out of the agency’s warehouse.

The early intervention of the firefighters from Lagos State Fire Service and men of the State Emergency Management Agency curtailed the spread of the fire.

While the exact cause of the fire incident can’t be ascertained as at the time of writing this report, there were conflicting accounts of what started it.

The spokesperson for the NCS, FOU Ikeja, Jerry Attah, said three vehicles were burnt, adding that no life was lost or injury sustained.

He said, “A section of the constructed annex warehouse was gutted by fire. It is not our main warehouse. There were two trucks that had been there for a long time. The trucks had gas cylinders which usually come with them. The fact that they had been there for a long time, coupled with the heat of the season, made one of them explode. When it exploded, the fire spread. But we called in the state fire service and LASEMA. The fire was put out at 3 pm. Only one truck and two cars were burnt”.

However, one of the emergency workers at the scene said the fire started due to bush burning activities around the place where the vehicles were parked.

He said, “We discovered that some people were burning bush around the warehouse and that was what started the inferno. No life was lost and no injury sustained”.

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The Director of the state fire service, Rasak Fadipe, said the agency deployed three water trucks from its Alausa, Ikeja and Ilupeju fire stations.

He said, “When we received the alert, we activated our emergency response plan and deployed firefighters in the scene. We had seen the fire from our office and with the support of our sister agency, LASEMA, we did not allow the fire to go beyond where we met it”.

“The fire, however, destroyed six articulated vehicles, 12 cars, and two minibuses. There were many vehicles in the warehouse. We worked tirelessly to prevent the fire from spreading to other vehicles. If not for our prompt response, the damage would have been more”, he concluded.

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