Kwara fire service saves shops from midnight fire

Kwara State Fire firefighters successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday successfully curtailed a occurrence outbreak astatine a commercialized gathering successful the Tanke country of Ilorin, preventing what could person resulted successful extended spot loss.

According to the spokesperson of the occurrence service, Hassan Adekunle, the work received a distress telephone astatine 02:19hrs, reporting a occurrence outbreak astatine a storey gathering located beside Terminus Motor Park, on University Road, Tipper Garage, Tanke, Ilorin.

“Firefighters responded promptly to the exigency and arrived to find a storey gathering comprising six shops and 1 kiosk engulfed successful flames.

“Through swift and coordinated firefighting operations, the unit successfully contained the fire, restricting the harm to lone 1 kiosk, portion each six shops were saved from destruction.

“Preliminary probe revealed that the occurrence was caused by a powerfulness surge,” the spokesperson added.

The manager of the authorities occurrence service, Alabi Muhammed, commended the professionalism and accelerated effect of the firefighters.

He besides urged...