“FIRE OUTBREAK AT DILLION AND OKODUWA STREETS CONTROVERSIAL” SOURCES REVEAL

For so many, the new year started beautifully while for others bitterly.

There was a disastrous fire outbreak at Dillion Street and Okoduwa Street junction in Kirikiri town, Lagos state on Thursday 8^th January 2015. Though Dillion Street is a residential area, Okoduwa Street is well known as a business hub for truck tire and rim spare parts.

Sympathizers at the scene of the fire at Okoduwa street

One of the affected buildings at Dillion street

One of the affected buildings at Dillion street

One of the burnt cars inside the building at Dillion street

The fire started at 2:22am WAT. With swift response by the fire service of Depots in Kirikiri town (Fatgbems Oil Depot, Techno Oil Depot, Swift Oil Depot, Bovas Oil Depot), Navy town fire service and reinforcement by the Lagos state fire service afterwards, the fire was contained after ravishing and consuming about NGN30 million worth of goods and properties.

Lagos state fire service controlling the crowd at the scene

Lagos state fire service controlling the crowd at the scene

An eye witness testified saying he was 10 meters away from the scene when the fire started.

“I was just some distance away from the scene because I parked my bike to sleep on it when the incident happened at midnight and it started from one of the shops. I don’t really know but I think It must have been an electrical fault from one of the shops there and also the way the fire spread there must have been a concealed oil product somewhere around there which fused with stored tires in one of the shops” The eye witness testified.

One of the burnt shops

One of the burnt technical workshop

One of the burnt truck tire spare part hop

One of the burnt official buildings

Lady rushes for safety as fire ravished one of the shops

 One of the shops that was burnt to ashes

Speculations have it that the land housing the numerous shops (Provision store, Construction company office, Mechanical shops, Spare part dealer and Articulated truck tire shop and others) was actually up for sale before the unfortunate incident.

one of the agile fire fighter with Lagos state fire service 

Lagos state fire service truck

Contemplating the root cause of the fire, residents of Kirikiri town in their several opinions mull over a suspected commencement of hostilities on that land.

The Lagos State fire service, the police and even the owner of the land haven’t been able to come up with any reports of the cause of the fire outbreak that damaged properties and goods although no life was lost.

One of the dealers of truck tires was reported to have fainted in his home town when he heard the news of his shop being burnt down completely by the fire.

The one storey building beside the land was also extremely affected by the inferno but the aged woman whose children lives abroad consoled her for the loss.

 The Kirikiri town divisional HQ’s DCO was on ground to examine the damage and they are still investigating so are the Lagos state fire service team and the owner of the property but their phones weren’t available to be reached for further briefing as at the time of filing this report.