| Three people have been confirmed dead while houses and several properties destroyed in a fire from a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which erupted at Abule Egba/Ekoro road, on Sunday night.
Two adults and one young male were lost to the inferno, with 11 trucks laden with 40 feet containers destroyed, while about seven buildings were razed down by the inferno, the Lagos State government.
The Lagos State Emergency Response Agency (LASEMA) said it activated the its emergency response plan to curtail the inferno. Read also: First time ever, 8 NNPC subsidiaries declare record N83.9bn surplus However, no injuries were recorded by the responders during the operation in which LASEMA combined efforts of its Lagos West Response Unit, the Dolphin and those of the Command Control Centre Tiger Squads, LASEMA Fire Team, as well as the Lagos State and Federal Fire Services, the Police Rapid Response Squad, and other relevant safety and security agencies.
Olufemi Oke-Osayintolu, the director-general of LASEMA, who confirmed the incident, said the fire had been successfully put off. According to him, initial investigation revealed 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,” said Oke-Osayintolu.
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