On Tuesday, goods worth over N50 million were gutted by fire
while three people were injured at the popular Electronics
International Market Onitsha in Anambra State. The cause of the fire
isn’t yet known but the inferno was said to have started at about
3.am from one of the shops inside the market.

According to an eye witness:

“Immediately we discovered that there was an outbreak of fire in
one of the shops, I alerted the vigilante commander, Mr. Jideofor
Okacha and we started making contacts for help but all efforts
were in vain as none of the fire service stations contacted
responded except Okpoko Fire Service Station”.

Mr. Jideofor Okacha said:

“We tried to break the shop to stop the fire with our fire
extinguisher, but to no avail and the security men from one of the
new generation banks located inside the market brought their
extinguisher but to no avail. Instead, the fire escalated, touching
the double shop apartment and other near-by shops in the
market.

“As it went out of control, we called the Okpoko Fire Service men
at about 4.am and they responded promptly with their vehicle
and put out the fire.”
He said the Okpoko fire service men were called and emptied their
tank on the inferno.

He said:
“Nobody died because it was in the midnight and people were still
sleeping but some of the security men with me from a new
generation bank sustained various degrees of injury as we tried
to stop the fire”.

Vanguard

December approaching..fire gutting..pple should be careful..