Two flats in a one storey building at Nweke Nwobuchi Street, Umudioka village Awka, behind National secondary school was gutted by fire.
The fire which alleged to be caused by a licked gas from a gas cooker, affected the top two flats destroying properties worth millions of naira.
Speaking to newsmen at the scene, the owner of the building, Barrister Nnamdi Anagor, said that they were trying to fix the licking gas cylinder before the fire engulfed the building as they have earlier perceived the odour, and called on government and well to do citizens to come to their aid as they have lost their properties worth millions of naira.
Barrister Anagor, disclosed that no life was lost to the incident but that one person sustained some injuries and has been hospitalized. Also speaking, a friend to the owner of the building, Mr. Maxwell Udechukwu, who alerted the Fire Service Agency through emergency number, thanked Governor Willie Maduabuchi Obiano for equipping the state's fire service, noting that the effect of the fire could have been more disastrous if not for the urgent intervention of the agency.
On his part, the officer in charge of Fire Prevention Training and Sensitization in the state Engineer Martin Agility, attributed the huge lost to the fire to lack of fire extinguisher in the building, advising landlords to make sure they provide the equipment in their buildings.
Listing "carbondioxid, CO2 and dry chemical powder" DCP, as two types of fire extinguisher, Engineer Agility, also urged the masses to provide fire extinguisher in their kitchens for rapid fire outbreak control.
The fire which alleged to be caused by a licked gas from a gas cooker, affected the top two flats destroying properties worth millions of naira.
Speaking to newsmen at the scene, the owner of the building, Barrister Nnamdi Anagor, said that they were trying to fix the licking gas cylinder before the fire engulfed the building as they have earlier perceived the odour, and called on government and well to do citizens to come to their aid as they have lost their properties worth millions of naira.
Barrister Anagor, disclosed that no life was lost to the incident but that one person sustained some injuries and has been hospitalized. Also speaking, a friend to the owner of the building, Mr. Maxwell Udechukwu, who alerted the Fire Service Agency through emergency number, thanked Governor Willie Maduabuchi Obiano for equipping the state's fire service, noting that the effect of the fire could have been more disastrous if not for the urgent intervention of the agency.
On his part, the officer in charge of Fire Prevention Training and Sensitization in the state Engineer Martin Agility, attributed the huge lost to the fire to lack of fire extinguisher in the building, advising landlords to make sure they provide the equipment in their buildings.
Listing "carbondioxid, CO2 and dry chemical powder" DCP, as two types of fire extinguisher, Engineer Agility, also urged the masses to provide fire extinguisher in their kitchens for rapid fire outbreak control.
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