NEMA WARNS ON FLAMMABLE MATERIALS
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
PHOTO:EAGLE ONLINE
NIGERIANS HAVE GRADUATED FROM BEATING FIRE FIGHTERS TO DESTROYING THERE EQUIPMENTS.
The National Emergency Management Agency [NEMA]has warned
Nigerians and people from all walks of life to handle flammable related materials
carefully as the dry season sets in Nigeria.
According to text messages received on the News Office Desk
of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos, Nigeria it was learnt through the Public
Affairs Unit of the agency that
there was a recent fire outbreak at the Prison
staff private living quarters in Ikoyi, Lagos ,Nigeria..
NEMA disclosed that during the inferno and the ensuing
stampede that followed a middle aged
man suffered a severe case of electrocution as he stepped on live electric cable leading to his been rushed to the
hospital.
The body noted that the fire which started around four
thirty in the afternoon ,gutted shops
built with wooden materials as three
delivery hoses of the Lagos state fire services
were vandalized by hoodlums in the incident as state and Federal fire
service officials responded to distress calls on the saga.
In a related issue,an outbreak of fire is also have engulfed
,The Federal Ministry of Works offices just behind Tafawa Balewa Square in
Lagos,Nigeria recently.
In a message wired to the News Office Desk of Paedia Express
Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria ,The Public Affairs Unit,South West Division of the
National Emergency Management Agency[NEMA]said that the fire which started
around five in the evening on the 28 of
October ,2014 had officials of the state and Federal Fire Services battling to put out the inferno ..
It was learnt that the fire affected part of the ground
floors that houses the Federal Ministry
of Works and Productivity and the Bank of Industries Cooperative Unit.
NEMA added that the fire was eventually put off around seven
in the evening with no casualty recorded.
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