As Lagos suffers another pipeline fire at Abule Egba/Ekoro Road Sunday night, the Lagos State Emergency Response Agency, LASEMA has activated the State’s Emergency Response Plan.
The swift response of LASEMA and other First Responders mobilized to the incident site with the Incident Commander, DG/CEO LASEMA-Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu in charge of the recovery process, has successfully curtailed the inferno.
The quick success aside being attributed to adequate training of personnel, quick response time and acquisition of proper equipment by the Governor Sanwo–Olu led administration, it was attributed to the outcome of interagency collaboration was said to have made the operation and recovery process fast and smooth.
According to updated reports, the inferno has been completely put off with details revealing that the valve where the vandalised petroleum products emanated from, had been stopped cutting off supply totally from source at the NNPC Station.
This collaborative act by the NNPC eased the entire recovery process in no small measure, as supply of the highly inflammable fluid was cut off at source which contributed immensely to curtailing the resultant fire from acts of the pipeline vandals.
Though preliminary report on the Ilepo fire outbreak had it that it was a pipeline fire which cause could not be ascertained, however, Situational Report from further investigations later revealed that the inferno was as a result of pipeline vandalism.
Going further, the report have it that two adults and one young male lives were lost to the inferno, with 11 trucks laden with 40feet containers destroyed, while about Seven buildings were razed down by the inferno.
However no injuries were recorded by the responders during the operation in which LASEMA combined efforts of it’s Lagos West Response Unit, the Dolphin and that of the Command Control Center Tiger Squads, LASEMA Fire Team, as well as the Lagos State and Federal Fire Services, the RRS and other relevant safety and security agencies were responders.
NOS∆ OKUNBOR
Public Affairs Officer – LASEMA
