Residents of Mafoluku street, Oshodi and environs were thrown into sorrow on Monday, August 11, 2014 as 2 children were said to have been burnt to death after a fire outbreak at 43, Mofoluku street.
The children, identified as Joel Chukwu and Monadi Samuel were siad to have been burnt to death before the men of the fire service could rescue them.
According to Vanguard, the outbreak was caused by a candle which was lit in the flat which fell, thereby causing the fire. As fate would have it, bothe children were killed in the inferno as they were sleeping at the time.
Vanguard reports:
Confirming the report, the Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Razak Fadipe, said that two infants died in the fire disaster last night, explaining that the fire service was not called on time to put out the fire.
”We got a distress call around 8:38p.m. last night and when we got there, we discovered that it was a storey building that was on fire. The top floor had two-bedroom apartment and four single rooms, while the ground floor had two bedrooms and six single rooms. They did not call us on time when the fire occurred,” he said.
Fadipe confirmed the fire was caused by a candle which was lit by the family.
He said two water tanks were used in putting out the fire, adding that the Isolo and Ilupeju Fire Stations were involved in putting out the fire.
According to him, the top floor of the building was razed, particularly the two bedroom flat on the top floor where the deceased children and their family used to live.
The Fire Service boss appealed to the residents to desist from using candle in their houses as it could be very dangerous, saying that they could purchase cheap rechargeable lamps that would be more useful for them at night.
