The fire incident occured at about 7.25am on Wednesday.
It was learnt that alternative power source inverter panels and batteries went on flame and the room housing the inverter panels got burnt.
Also, at 1, Olabisi Close, Mende in Maryland area of Lagos, a building with warehouse, commercial and residential floors which had the ground floor as commercial storage of clothing materials engulfed in the ensuing fire with residential accommodation on the first to the fourth floors.
NewsBeatng gathered that the fire spread to the fourth floor in an unusual pattern leaving the first to third floor unaffected.
Confirming the incident, the Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, in a statement issued on Wednesday, said ” It was discovered that a room on the ground floor of a four storey building housing the alternative power source inverter panels and batteries was on flame at the Zenith bank branch”, adding that the agency doused it before it could spread and cause any meaningful damage.
On the Warehouse inferno, Adeseye explained that officers of the Lagos State and Federal Fire Service, the Nigerian Police, LASAMBUS and LASEMA worked together in putting out the fire, adding that the officers battled it overnight”.
She added “There was no record of death or injury at both scenes of the incidents which were just two out of the 11 emergencies attended by the Agency in the last 24 hours,”.
