Fire has broken out at the Lagos Market on Dosunmu Street as the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service battle the inferno involving a 3-storey building and adjoining structures.

Update to follows!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix0tLqwrH8?si=1YigBuSCHwRGuL1L

warehouse worth million of naira currently on fire at docemo street, Idumota market

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frt46sldQM?si=T4exe4Ygrme2wF9M

The house behind is also on fire, the Fire service are presently at DOSUNMU axis trying hard to put out the fire for hours...

House on fire in Lagos Island

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K39hq_g1W0I?si=bbbJt7pipR7KBYL1

VIDEO: Firefighters battle raging fire overnight at Lagos market

The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service says it has brought the fire that gutted buildings at a market on Dosunmu Street, in the Lagos Island area of the state under control.

The agency’s Director, Margaret Adeseye, in a statement, said the fire which was reported at 8:50pm on Saturday involved “a trio of three-storey buildings.” She noted that the timely intervention of firefighters limited the fire to only the topmost floors of the buildings.

“Meanwhile, the cause of the fire is yet unknown as investigation will reveal thereafter while it affected variety of goods that include key lock/cylinder, decoration fittings, Christmas items, among others which cost could be immediately ascertained.

“There is no record of injury nor death as operations enter dampening down,” Adeseye added.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvX6OW59p1g?si=e3BA-0LM7Rg-XTHT


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Zionmdde:
Businessmen are really losing a lot in lagos. Fire, market closure etc. All these started after elections

I just hope all these fire are natural incidents though

Zionmdde:
Businessmen are really losing a lot in lagos. Fire, market closure etc. All these started after elections

I just hope all these fire are natural incidents though

Zionmdde:
Businessmen are really losing a lot in lagos. Fire, market closure etc. All these started after elections

I just hope all these fire are natural incidents though

GboyegaD:
Still wonder why our markets are gutted by fire. With all the recent experiences, shouldn't the government ensure there is a fire service unit at least per market?

GboyegaD:
Still wonder why our markets are gutted by fire. With all the recent experiences, shouldn't the government ensure there is a fire service unit at least per market?

Zionmdde:
Businessmen are really losing a lot in lagos. Fire, market closure etc. All these started after elections

I just hope all these fires are natural incidents though

adeniranfam:

It was one idiot that stored knockout in the last floor and it affected other building. Government need to this knockout

naptu2:


That's what caused the massive 2012 fire also. It's like there's always a fire outbreak at those markets during the ember months and fireworks is one of the major causes.

naptu2:
The only unusual thing this time is that it occurred during the Rainy Season.

It has almost become a tradition that there should be major fire outbreaks at Oko Baba (on the Mainland) and on Lagos Island sometime between September and January every year. The reason for the fire outbreaks is quite obvious.

Oko Baba is a gigantic illegal sawmill. Dry wood is stored haphazardly over a wide area in Ebute Metta. The wood and sawdust is often burnt there, making it difficult for motorists on Third Mainland Bridge to see (driving down that stretch of the bridge is extremely dangerous because of the smoke). The Government has had plans to relocate the sawmills for a very long time. These plans have often been frustrated by people who spread rumours that the government just wants to steal land. It seems as if there is a major fire outbreak at that place every single dry season. There was another fire outbreak there yesterday.

There have also been fire outbreaks at the various markets on Lagos Island almost every Dry Season since the 1980s. One of the reasons for the fires on Lagos Island is the enormous amount of illegal fireworks that are stored there every Christmas season. The fire in 2012 caused such a huge explosion that some people thought that Boko Haram militants had bombed Lagos. The explosion was so powerful that it knocked down part of the building in which the fireworks were stored. The sale, distribution and use of these fireworks have been illegal since the early 1980s, but people keep using them during the Christmas season and so there is a huge market for them and this market is centred around Lagos Island.

The large number of clothes that are sold on Lagos Island also serve as fuel for these fire outbreaks that occur during the Dry Season. On one occasion someone was trying to refuel an electricity generator that was still on and this caused a fire that burnt through bales of fabric.

Zionmdde:
Businessmen are really losing a lot in lagos. Fire, market closure etc. All these started after elections

I just hope all these fire are natural incidents though

Godfullsam:


Pls don't drag politics into everything.

Are you trying to say there was never any fire incident or market closure in lagos before elections?