Fire guts warehouse in 3-storey building in Onitsha

On Tuesday, a fire gutted a warehouse in a three-story building at No. 64 Venn Road in Onitsha, Anambra.

This is contained in a statement signed by the Director/Fire Chief of Anambra Fire Service, Mr. Martin Agbili, on Wednesday in Onitsha.

Agbili said the Anambra Fire Service received a distress call of a fire outbreak in a three-storey building at No. 64 Venn Road by Sanish in Onitsha at about 9:46 p.m. on Tuesday.

“We immediately deployed our fire trucks and our diligent firefighters to the scene of the fire.

“The cause of the fire is unknown, and no life was lost.

“The fire partly affected the building and affected the goods on the ground floor, as many vacuum flasks in the warehouse were destroyed”, he said.

Agbili said that his men were able to prevent the fire from spreading to other buildings around