Emab Plaza Fire: Emergency Workers Battle Rubbles After 2 Days

Emergency crews were inactive battling done rubbles 2 days aft a devastating occurrence tore done Emab Plaza, a four-storey commercialized gathering located down the iconic Mandilas Building connected Lagos Island.

The inferno, which broke retired precocious Tuesday nighttime aft akin incidental At Afriland Towers successful Lagos, dispersed rapidly to 3 neighbouring buildings, leaving wide demolition successful its aftermath and sparking renewed concerns astir recurring occurrence incidents successful Lagos Island’s engaged commercialized district.

LEADERSHIP reports that the blaze was archetypal reported astir 9:23pm connected Tuesday, starting connected the 4th level of Emab Plaza earlier advancing to adjoining structures. Thick fume was seen pouring from the precocious floors arsenic eyewitnesses raised alarms.

Responding swiftly, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service dispatched exigency teams from its Ebute Elefun and Oniru stations.

By 10 p.m., Deputy Controller-General Olajide Ogabi confirmed that firefighting and rescue operations were inactive underway.

“The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service swiftly responded to a occurrence outbreak astatine a four-storey building, with the blaze reported from the 4th level of Emab Plaza, located down Mandilas, Taiwo Street, Lagos Island,” Ogabi said.

“The incidental was reported astatine 19:23 hours, prompting contiguous dispatch of occurrence crews from the Ebute Elefun and Oniru Fire Stations. The origin of the occurrence is yet to beryllium determined.”

Though firefighters were capable to incorporate the worst of the blaze, the flames had already dispersed to portions of adjoining buildings, heightening fears of greater economical nonaccomplishment successful the area.

As of Thursday afternoon, exigency crews were inactive battling done debris, with assessments ongoing to find the standard of damage. No authoritative casualty figures person been released.

LEADERSHIP reports that the Emab Plaza occurrence followed intimately aft different devastating blaze astatine Afriland Towers connected Broad Street, Lagos Island connected the aforesaid day. That incidental claimed lives and destroyed offices, raising urgent questions astir occurrence information compliance successful the city’s densely populated concern hubs.

The latest calamity came hardly months aft a akin occurrence gutted the Mandilas Market successful January, destroying implicit 450 shops, 30 offices, 2 hotels, and 5 restaurants, displacing thousands of traders and causing losses moving into billions of naira. The incidental was attributed to welding activities connected the little floors of the building.