Tragedy struck at the early hours of Thursday in Osogbo, capital of Osun State when fire razed two ware houses destroying multimillion goods at Alekuwodo Area.
It was gathered that fire started in one of the two-storey buildings around 1:30am where mattress are kept and other part of the floors are occupied by people who are using it for residential purposes.
It was learnt that fire started from the warehouse where the mattresses are kept before it spread to the whole house. Thereafter, the fire engulfed furniture and decoration warehouse close to the building.
The fire destroyed goods in the two warehouses and also caused of the the building to collapsed. Residents living around the two houses have vacated their house, evacuating their belongings from the buildings in case of any eventuality of fire from the wares houses.
Men of Federal and State Fire Services are on ground to put out the fire because it was still raging as at the time of filing this report.
An eyewitness Abidemi said; “The fire started around 2AM. My sister is living in one of the floors of the house first warehouse, one of her children went to urinate and discover fire in the house, my sister called me because I am living around Oke-Fia.”
The Chief Superintendent of Corps, National Security and Civil Defense Corps(NSCDC), Abioye Toyin, said: “I got a call from headquarters that there is fire outbreak around 2AM. Immediately, I called some of my men, we rushed down to this place. On getting here, we have men of Federal Fire Service and Osun State Fire Service on ground to put out the fire. We supported them to ensure that the fire does not go out of control.”
He noted that the fire was very serious but no casualty was recorded as hundreds of million goods were destroyed.
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