Tag: Fire Incident
Fire razes through Bayelsa furniture market
Eyewitnesses recall that the residents tried to put out the fire before officials of the Bayelsa State Fire Service arrived…
Fire consumes fuel truck, motorcycles, filling station in Oyo
Akinwade said that personnel of the agency were able to completely extinguish the fire and prevented it from spreading to…
LUTH sends nursing students on vacation after hostel fire incident
Adeyemo said that the two-week window vacation was declared to enable the management assess the damage done by the fire…
Navy rescues 20 crew members in vessel fire
Chimba Express, with 21 people comprising 14 Nigerians and seven Cameroonians on board, still had one person missing as at…
Just in: Sallah gone sour in Kano as fire guts GSM market
Though fire fighters and other security agencies made concerted efforts to put the fire under control, property and goods destroyed…
Traders count loses as fire razes12 shops in Ibadan market
An eyewitness said the fire started at Block A, No. 64 of Mayegun Cement Store Market and raged for more…
Fire consumes driver, motor boy at Ibadan petrol station
“The driver and motor boy were burnt to death,” he said.
LASEMA battles raging fire at Lagos medical facility
Oke-Osanyintolu said that the agency activated the state’s emergency response plan and its response team from Oshodi, following distress calls…
Tragedy in Ondo: Mother, 2 children burnt to death
The victims were burnt beyond recognition in the inferno which lasted for hours, according to a family source. The source…
Mysterious fire razes Edo school, destroys block of classrooms
The Executive Chairman of Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mrs. Onomen Goodness Briggs, disclosed the incident in a…
Fire burns shanties in Lagos
Following distress calls received through the 767 and 112 emergency toll-free lines at 01.18hrs, LASEMA activated its response team from…
Tragedy hits Sokoto: SSG loses daughter, 3 grand children to fire disaster
The fire which broke out early Monday morning consumed the residence of the SSG while the family were sleeping. However,…
Fire guts Lagos apartment
He said while the response teams were preventing the fire from spreading to other apartments within the building, the occupants…
Boxing Day shocker! Fire engulfs FIIRO
Officials of the Lagos State Fire & Rescue Service came on ground to battle the fire which had proved difficult…
Ibadan: Fire razes shops at Moniya garage
Akinyinka said that the agency received a distress call about the fire incident from one Mr Adelola around 12:27 a.m.,…
Fire disrupts operations of Lagos Blue Train
LAMATA said this while confirming a fire outbreak at a section of the Lagos Blue Line rail track near the…
Gov. Yusuf consoles commissioner over daughter, siblings death in inferno
Yusuf led members of the State Executive Council and other dignitaries to the funeral rites of the deceased held at…
Panic as fire guts petrol tanker inside Abuja filling station
The fuel tanker was said to be waiting to discharge its product before it caught fire for yet- to- be-…
70 vehicles gutted, many dead in Rivers petrol tanker fire
The content of the truck ignited heavy fire that engulfed many cars caught up in the perennial chaotic traffic synonymous…
Early morning fire destroys goods, hard currencies in Benin
The building which housed about 20 stores, is located not too far away from Eki Osa Market, by Third Junction,…
Abure, family escape death as ‘mysterious’ fire guts Abuja home – Labour Party
He added that Abure and members of his family were able to escape after neighbours and security men pulled down…
‘How killing of convict led to burning of 10 shops, 8 vehicles in Wuse market’
The spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh in a statement on Tuesday evening said Yahaya was shot dead…
FCMB investigates fire at Macarthy branch office
According to a press statement by the bank, “We are grateful to the men of the Nigerian Fire Service for…
FCT Fire Service speaks on inferno at residence of Minister
Adedayo said that although no life was lost, all the household items on the upper floor of the 7-bedroom duplex…
Fire Service blames power surge for devastating Kwara High Court fire
It also said the 40 offices, three open courts and the registry department were gutted in the inferno, but the…
Fire razes Samsung showroom in Abuja
“Allowing firefighters to commence their firefighting efforts, but regrettably, the delay caused the fire to intensify and spread throughout the…
‘Over 200 shops, N4bn lost to Owerri timber market inferno’
Some of the traders who spoke in Owerri, on Monday said the inferno started at about 1.30am on Saturday, December,…
Fire burns seven people to death in Bauchi
The data comprised domestic and industrial fire incidents, adding the service received 38 distress calls for fire incidents in homes…
Mother, 8 children burnt to death in apartment fire
The Governor of Bursa, Yakup Canbolat, said the 31-year-old mother, her six children and two nieces, were caught in the…
NYSC speaks on fire outbreak at its headquarters
NYSC said that the fire was immediately put out by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Federal Fire Service Departments.