Ibadan: Fire razes shops at Moniya garage
A fire incident in the early hours of Monday has razed shops and destroyed property worth millions of naira at the Moniya Garage in Ibadan.
Yemi Akinyinka, the general manager of the Oyo State Fire Services Agency, made this known in a statement on Monday in Ibadan.
Mr Akinyinka said the agency received a distress call about the fire incident from one Adelola around 12:27 a.m. on Monday and immediately deployed personnel to the scene.
He said the personnel of the agency, on getting to the scene, discovered that the fire had affected rows of shops and container shops at the garage.
“We swiftly swung into action, and we were able to curtail the fire and restricted it from spreading to all nearby shops and other properties,” he said.
Mr Akinyinka said no life was lost to the fire incident, but properties worth millions of naira were destroyed.
The general manager said the remote cause of the fire incident was traced to the plugging of electrical appliances unattended to.
He advised the people of Oyo State to handle fire with care to avoid fire incidents.
(NAN)
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