- Safiu Kehinde
No fewer than six shops have been gutted by fire with properties worth millions of Naira were destroyed in Ogbomoso, Oyo State.
The incident reportedly occurred on Thursday at Ile-Ewe, Sawmill Area, Ogbomoso.
Confirming the incident to newsmen on Friiday, the Chairman of the Oyo State Fire Services Agency, Maroof Akinwande, disclosed that the personnel of the agency received a distress call about the fire incident from one Mr David Ajagbe at exactly 2:08pm on Thursday.
Akinwande said that the agency’s personnel, led by CFS Dairo, promptly left for the scene and arrived on time.
“On getting to the scene, we met six out of 10 locked up shops well alight and quickly engaged our appliance and we were able to curtail the fire from spreading to other shops and nearby properties.
“Properties worth millions of Naira were affected by the fire and fire service was able to save millions of properties,” the chairman said.
He added that no casualty was recorded while investigation was on going to ascertain the cause of the fire incident.