Fire razes down furniture workshop, destroys valuable property

An early morning fire on Tuesday completely razed down a furniture workshop in Felele area of Ibadan in Oyo State and destroyed property worth millions of Naira.

An eyewitness, who asked for anonymity, told the newsmen that he noticed the fire raging at the furniture workshop around 5 a.m.

He said this was when he was about to go to the mosque for the morning prayers.

The eyewitness said the cause of the fire incident was unknown to him and fire fighters were immediately alerted about the incident.

The General Manager, Oyo State Fire Services Agency, Mr Yemi Akinyinka, later confirmed the incident to newsmen, saying the agency received a call about the fire incident at exactly 5:34 a.m.

He said that after the call came in from one Mr. Olátúnjí from Splash FM in Lbadan, men of his agency immediately swung into action.

Akinyinka said the agency’s personnel were promptly deployed to the scene of the fire incident to put it out, and they prevented it from spreading to nearby buildings.

He said the furniture workshop, located at No. 51, Debo Plaza, opposite Lam Adesina Junction at Felele, was made of plank, which was purely combustible and aided the fire’s momentum.

“The whole workshop was razed down, but no life was lost, and the cause of the fire incident is yet to be known,” the general manager added.

“But while the fire has been successfully put out, some of the nearby buildings, made up of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) parish and a New Covenant Church, were also affected.

“The furniture workshop was in the middle of the churches where the fire started,” he said.