A resident’s failure to properly extinguish a charcoal fire used for cooking on Thursday night resulted in a fire that engulfed a 40-room flat in the early hours of Friday.
The incident happened at the Ile Muse compound, off Emir’s Road in Ilorin, Kwara State,
Reports have it that 9 of the 40 rooms at No. E143, Ile Muse, off Emir’s road, Ilorin in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara was consumed by the inferno that engulfed the building early on Friday.
Eye witness account corroborated by the report of the state fire service said that the fire incident started in the wee hours of Friday and was caused by an unextinguished fire from Charcoal left in the night by one of the residents after cooking her meals.
In a statement by its Head of Media and Publicity, Hassan Adekunle, Kwara State Fire Service, The Fire Service received a distress call at about 3.00 am on Friday that a raging fire had engulfed a compound at No. E143, Ile Muse, off Emir’s Road, Ilorin.
Adekunle, who said that no life was lost in the inferno, revealed that household utensils, clothes, electronics, and building materials, as well as personal documents, were lost to the fire incident.
He said that the Director of the State Fire Service, Prince Falade John, who was visibly moved by the incident, sympathised with the victims.
