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JUST IN: Fire Guts Two Popular Residential Buildings In Imo
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Fire has gutted two popular residential buildings in Imo State.
EKOHOTBLOG reports that no fewer than two buildings on the same street were, within a week, gutted by fire in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
It was gathered that fire outbreak occurred at no 1 and 9, Eke-Ada Street on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
It was further learnt that the inferno was triggered by an electrical surge shortly after power was restored.
Valuable properties worth millions of naira were, however, destroyed in another fire outbreak that completely razed the first floor of the No 1 building on the same street during the incident between 12 am to 12:30 am on Saturday.
Speaking on the incidents, the Assistant Superintendent of Fire, ASF 1, Federal Fire Service, Owerri, Okafor Okorie, said the agency received distress calls and activated its response plan.
Okorie added that on arrival, the Federal Fire Service discovered a storey building engulfed in flames but quickly intervened.
He further stated that the fire incident at No 1 Eke-Ada, which was suspected to have been triggered by an electrical surge affected only one flat on the first floor.
Okoried disclosed that the Fire Service emergency responders team came within five minutes and prevented the fire from escalating to other flats.
The Assistant Superintendent further explained that the quick response of the fire service team effectively stopped the fire from extending to other properties around it.
He added that fortunately, no loss of life and no injuries were recorded.
It was, however, gathered that the occupants of the said flat lost all property as they had all gone to church for Sunday service before the fire outbreak.
Meanwhile, the landlord of the the other building at No 1 Eke-Ada Street, who is a pensioner, was said to have collapsed and still receiving medical attention in an undisclosed hospital.
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