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madridguy:
I still don't get, fire alarm no dey the building? No emergency exits for the building? Are the security officers at the building no get small training on how to tackle fire outbreak before the arrival of the fire service....

Our problem in Nigeria is that we don't investigate incident like this properly and hold the culprits responsible for their negligence.

R. I. P to them all.

It's easy to judge when you are not there. Some situations can take people by surprise in just a few minutes everything will change.

madridguy:
You are correct, I couldn't watch the video because it is just too disturbing seeing people jumping from the building.

This is where I blame the securities working at the tower.

please let you guys stop blaming the securities. How much is those securities salary that they will risk their own life for a deadly rescue mission.
It only takes one with good heart to make such risk

Originalsly:
The bolded. The management without investigating the cause of the fire ...will be reviewing safety measures. Really? What are the fire safety requirements by the City? ... smoke alarms? ...fire extinguishers? (for cars but not for buildings?) ... Emergency exits? ...and are they enforced? When last ...if ever was this building inspected for fire safety ? ... were the exits locked?..chained?.. preventing quick and easy exit? ...was the staircase free of obstacles? ...or used as storeroom? Are fire drills done?

exactly my thoughts.. the stair case would have solved this problem. It’s very obvious that access was initially restricted. Since it’s a high profile building that even houses FIRS staffs.

The stairs closed or restricted due to security reasons for the big men. So outsiders wouldn’t gain easy access to the building. That’s exactly what happened.
Now it backfired

no sympathy for idiots. for the fact that they couldnt buy fire extinguisher. it means they are idiots.
i always believe that the world has a way of filtering out idiots.

EmperorIsaac:
I dislike high-rise buildings with passion- no matter the beauty.

Hong-Kong has the highest number of highrise buildings in the world,they live there permanently because land is a premium. There hundreds of high rise buildings are designed with safety as a key factor during the fron engineering design.

madridguy:
I still don't get, fire alarm no dey the building? No emergency exits for the building? Are the security officers at the building no get small training on how to tackle fire outbreak before the arrival of the fire service....

Our problem in Nigeria is that we don't investigate incident like this properly and hold the culprits responsible for their negligence.

R. I. P to them all.

Smoke can kill you before you finish using the staircase. I mean thick black smoke that you can't open your eyes or see your front.

madridguy:
I still don't get, fire alarm no dey the building? No emergency exits for the building? Are the security officers at the building no get small training on how to tackle fire outbreak before the arrival of the fire service....

Our problem in Nigeria is that we don't investigate incident like this properly and hold the culprits responsible for their negligence.

R. I. P to them all.

This is Nigeria where nothing works.

Everyone neglects his or duties from top bottom.

Being a Nigerian resident in Nigeria at this stage demands a lot of care

madridguy:
I still don't get, fire alarm no dey the building? No emergency exits for the building? Are the security officers at the building no get small training on how to tackle fire outbreak before the arrival of the fire service....

Our problem in Nigeria is that we don't investigate incident like this properly and hold the culprits responsible for their negligence.

R. I. P to them all.

Oh dear God this is very sad. We must learn lesson to prevent another reoccurrence. May God comfort their families and the nation entirely. I am sad about what has happened....

Nigeria with so many conflicting news.
Someone said on 9ja info that there was no casualties.
Rest in Peace 🕯️ to the Dead

Who told you only top workers died ?

I am sure you typed that thinking you wrote something smart.

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ArcSEMPECJ:
Rest in peace to the top officers. ...I wonder why the fire strategically took only the lives of top Workers in the organization...

How did others escape that the top Workers where not considered first

Pray the main reason for this outbreak is found , so that corrections will be taken next time.

Eleph:
What a painful way to die.
May their souls rest in peace.

The person(s) who started that fire to destroy evidence of financial fraud will be visited with worse pains as they die IJMN 🙏

Wicked people

certain things like high rise building , bridges , Aviation , Motorway etc are only safe in a country that is allowed to develop. Not one that is deliberately held back from development by oyinbo people.Else you playing Russian roulette.

RIP to the dead. It must alos be mentioned that by the time the latest projects of FIRS land on Nigerian population people will be whipping and looking for other countries to flee to, cause thier job is a source of misery to the population.

Right now all over the world all over youtube, people a running heltar skelta looking for which country to hide to escape the escalating tax theft by government agencies as tax is now being weaponized for population control.

Choose your career carefully so that its one that contributes to your people and not a joib that brings misery to others cause one day you have to go back to answer for it.

So sad. May their souls rest in peace and may God comfort their families.

If you live or work in a high rise, three things.
1. Mandatory fire drills regularly.
2. Quality fire detection and suppressing equipment.
3. And most important to offices especially. Minimize clutter and the use of flammable materials. That means for ecample the excessive use of as simple an item as paper and books. That is fuel. It is an office not a fuel depot.

In low rise building the number one killer is access. That iron barricade that protects you from external invasion will also hinder your escape. If you have to search for keys to unlock your barricade. In an emergency you are likely doomed.

Mega City in the mud. So if na something bigger than this that's how multitude will perish. We play too much. Teach a child only safety in school he will be smarter than all these Govt packaged officials. Our safety level is zero. Lagos island with lots of high rise building not having the best equipment when it comes to fire and natural disaster. If na billing Dem go dey activate. When u have little educated citizens at local Government offices. Which magic will happen. They cannot think above their capacity

Preator:
Basic safety, never use elevators in an emergency. Always the stairs!

You think say you wise.

Preator:
Basic safety, never use elevators in an emergency. Always the stairs!

Thank you. Shocking when I saw that.

Not all stair cases are used for evacuation. There is fire exit staircases.

First, no fire door.
Second, no fire alarm
Third, no fire team so no equipment.
And I'm sure they do not conduct weekly fire drill and all the occupants in that building do fire training.

When I was in Nigeria and worked in a big establishment like that, nothing of such happened.

In every country, the government budget highest on maintainance followed by salary, training and awareness before you talk of new projects. In Nigeria, its the opposite. Phantom new projects, cos that's where they steal from, salary cos its a must. Maintainance that has the highest budget is the lowest while training and awareness is non existing.

oalandAgents2:
4 Directors perishing smells kind of suspicious.
Were these four directors appointment before Tinubu became president hmmm 🤔

I smell a very big rat here! Only directors died? I don't understand

madridguy:
I still don't get, fire alarm no dey the building? No emergency exits for the building? Are the security officers at the building not getting small training on how to tackle a fire outbreak before the arrival of the fire service....

Our problem in Nigeria is that we don't investigate incidents like this properly and hold the culprits responsible for their negligence.

R. I. P to them all.

Your guess is as good as mine. They do not have any safety measures in place to mitigate occurrences like this. This obviously is the Nigerian way; all we know how to do is to hold endless prayers and do nothing. If someone had tried to advise them years ago to put plans in place to tackle occurrences like this, they would say God forbid. A bunch of hypocritical people. We are not chrietains in this country, we are just a bunch of religious hypocrites.

sammyscholar:
Evacuation during fire outbreak in a high-rise building can present a huge challenge. You would need to get to the ground floor before you can make exit from the building. The elevator may have stopped working and the staircase might not be easily accessible. Also, the smoke of the fire is as deadly as the fire itself, some may have passed out before they make it to the exit.

Yes you are right, but something like a functional somke detector would have alerted the whole building of the fire earlier before the smoke spread, for christ sake this was not an instataneuos explosion, meaning the fire staed small and was undetected with no alrm until it spreads this much and there are no emergy evacuation plan in case of a fire. Ask them if they have ever conducted any Fire emergency drill in the building before, and your guess is as good as mine.

femi4:
How much is smoke detector again...safety thrown to the gutters

Don't mind them, they will not learn.

blackgold2018:
exactly my thoughts.. the stair case would have solved this problem. It’s very obvious that access was initially restricted. Since it’s a high profile building that even houses FIRS staffs.

The stairs closed or restricted due to security reasons for the big men. So outsiders wouldn’t gain easy access to the building. That’s exactly what happened.
Now it backfired

You all are so ignorant.
In a case of any fireout break, there are staircases that have fire doors.
It will be boldly written there. Use in case of fire emergency., fire alarm door.
There is a place everybody will run to following the fire exist pathways whereever they are.
Its called assembly point.

Once the fire start, alarms will go off, somebody will call the fire department and everybody will follow the fire exit pathway only
Not every staircase is designed for this job os of the type of doors used.

Those that died shouldn't have if they have the necessary fire equipments installed and fire team part of their workforce.

You see Nigeria, I have never seen people as delusio'nal and unser'ious as Nigerians. They take a lot of things for granted

AdolfHitlerxXx:
Who told you only top workers died ?

I am sure you typed that thinking you wrote something smart.

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You that's not an ode, give us the names of other people who died in the incident!

Reference:
If you live or work in a high rise, three things.
1. Mandatory fire drills regularly.
2. Quality fire detection and suppressing equipment.
3. And most important to offices especially. Minimize clutter and the use of flammable materials. That means for ecample the excessive use of as simple an item as paper and books. That is fuel. It is an office not a fuel depot.

In low rise building the number one killer is access. That iron barricade that protects you from external invasion will also hinder your escape. If you have to search for keys to unlock your barricade. In an emergency you are likely doomed.

High rise or not, it is compulsory.
The health and safety team is a must in every organisation and fire drills are conducted every week. That is a requirement.
Then the national fire department comes in every 2 or 3 months for their all round checks to make sure everything is working.
Heaven help you if your establishment fails. Directors are easily sacked cos of this.


Everybody in that building must undergo mandatory training. Everybody. The fire dept train them as soon as they are employed. Every year or six months, they do it again, write exams. Yes o. You must know all that you should know. Where the fire extinguishers are located,the colours and how to use them and o the type of fire.
How to evacuate.
Gosh,
Do they even employ fire service men as part of the workforce or they relied on the one from the govt.

All major hospitals, big buildings, schools, markets, prisons, any place that have a specific number of people MUST have fire dept that is part of their payroll and workforce. So also industries, big farms etc.
We only care about how much to steal and pepper them. Buy houses we will never occupy you, 100 cars and and party. What an unserious country

Why is there no fire emergency plan in place. There should have been fire emergency ladders on that building. May their souls rest in peace.

AdolfHitlerxXx:
Who told you only top workers died ?

I am sure you typed that thinking you wrote something smart.

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Is funny how you showed your lack of manners, Nairaland is not a training ground, go and learn manners elsewhere...

ArcSEMPECJ:
Is funny how you showed your lack of manners, Nairaland is not a training ground, go and learn manners elsewhere...

My address isn't that of your ancestors. Deliver your message to the appropriate quarters

jubrilELsudan:
FOOLISHNESS IS WHAT KILLED THEM

THE FIRE WAS IN THE BASEMENT AND WHAT ENGULFED THE BUILDING WAS THICK PLUM OF TOXIC SMOKE

WATCHING THE VIDEOS OF THE FIRE I OBSERVED THAT THE WINDOWS OF THE BUILDING WERE NEITHER SMASHED TO CREATE VENTILATION

AND I ASK LIKE HOW CAN A BUILDING BE FILLED WITH SMOKE AND PEOPLE INSIDE WILL NOT HAVE THE SURVIVAL INSTINCTS TO SMASH ALL AVAILABLE WINDOWS TO CREATE VENTILATION AND CREATE A ROUTE FOR THE SMOKE TO ESCAPE?

IT'S REALLY BAFFLING AND I WON'T BE SURPRISED THAT EVEN IN THE FACE OF DEATH THEY WERE FORMING BIG MAN AND ORDERING THEIR SUBORDINATES AROUND

that's serious. I was not impressed with d video of the rescue efforts at all. Though not by professionals. I thought fire service has a truck that has an extendable arm to rescue people from heights. They could have spread a or hang a net below for people to jump or crawl down.

jubrilELsudan:
FOOLISHNESS IS WHAT KILLED THEM

THE FIRE WAS IN THE BASEMENT AND WHAT ENGULFED THE BUILDING WAS THICK PLUM OF TOXIC SMOKE

WATCHING THE VIDEOS OF THE FIRE I OBSERVED THAT THE WINDOWS OF THE BUILDING WERE NEITHER SMASHED TO CREATE VENTILATION

AND I ASK LIKE HOW CAN A BUILDING BE FILLED WITH SMOKE AND PEOPLE INSIDE WILL NOT HAVE THE SURVIVAL INSTINCTS TO SMASH ALL AVAILABLE WINDOWS TO CREATE VENTILATION AND CREATE A ROUTE FOR THE SMOKE TO ESCAPE?

IT'S REALLY BAFFLING AND I WON'T BE SURPRISED THAT EVEN IN THE FACE OF DEATH THEY WERE FORMING BIG MAN AND ORDERING THEIR SUBORDINATES AROUND

that's serious. I was not impressed with d video of the rescue efforts at all. Though not by professionals. I thought fire service has a truck that has an extendable arm to rescue people from heights. They could have spread a or hang a net below for people to jump or crawl down.

Sermwell:
You that's not an ode, give us the names of other people who died in the incident!

well sometimes these things happens. They could be caught off guard

INDOMIE9090:
3 trucks were there to battle the fire yesterday,LASG invested in fire truck incase of situation like this.
Meanwhile,below is a picture of fire incident where bucket is been used to scope water from fire truck to quench fire

Medicine after death.... How many hours after? when the damage was already done... Make shame de catch una small abeg!

Helloworld123:
You think say you wise.

No, i dont think say i wise. But years of weekly fire drills especially in an industry where safety is always at the forefront has made my reactions to unscheduled drills automatic. I do not carry my laptop, my bag or anything personal. I am not a trained fire fighter so i dnt run to carry the extinguisher. I simply file out using the fire escape until i reach the muster point. And await further instructions. It might seem wise to you, but it's the norm for us.
It should be the norm everywhere. Change in your office can start with you.

#9 IOGP Rules

Preator:
No, i dont think say i wise. But years of weekly fire drills especially in an industry where safety is always at the forefront has made my reactions to unscheduled drills automatic. I do not carry my laptop, my bag or anything personal. I am not a trained fire fighter so i dnt run to carry the extinguisher. I simply file out using the fire escape until i reach the muster point. And await further instructions. It might seem wise to you, but it's the norm for us.
It should be the norm everywhere. Change in your office can start with you.

#9 IOGP Rules

The question is, have you ever have to put that drill to use? Have you been in a situation before?

I have worked in the oil and gas industry where drills are a big deal too. The day there was a risk of an explosion in the plant was when I understood that drill are good but do not accurately simulate reality and things get ugly quickly when people panic. So, basically, there's nothing special about the drills you do.

I don't pray you experience it through. It's a horror you'd be traumatized by forever.