One person has been injured as fire envelopes a building in Lagos.
Gatekeepers News reports that one person has sustained injuries after fire engulfed a two-storey building in Wiwo Ona Tere street, Apongbon, Lagos Island on Sunday morning.
The fire started around 7:51 am in one of the apartments on the top floor, and later spread to other flats to burn the entire floor before emergency responders could put it off.
An anonymous resident said the fire started from a room where a neighbour was cooking.
The resident narrated, “I was still sleeping when I heard that someone jumped down from the top floor and people in the street were already shouting thinking it was a thief.
“It was when we all went out that we saw smoke coming from upstairs.
“We started waking other neighbours up so we could all evacuate the building and that was when we found out that one of our neighbour’s maids was cooking with gas inside the room and the gas exploded which caused the fire.
“Instead of her to shout for help on time, she shut the door and jumped out of the building critically injuring herself and causing this so much which could have been avoided if only she spoke out on time.
“We called the fire service who arrived around 8:24 am and with the help of LASEMA who arrived around 8:43 am along with the collective efforts of people in the street the fire was put out preventing the entire building from burning down.”
He added that the injured teenager was rushed to a nearby private hospital for medical attention.
