Fire razes Lagos orphanage home, seven children rescued

Seven children were rescued after fire gutted a storey building occupied by an orphanage home on Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State.

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in a statement, revealed that the inferno was caused by a power surge that emanated from an air conditioning unit in the building.

The Permanent Secretary Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu said the Agency received the distress call on the fire incident at about 2:43 pm.

According to the statement, a one-storey building housing an orphanage/motherless babies home, was engulfed by fire which reportedly started from an air conditioning unit in the house as a result of a power surge which was said to have quickly spread out.

A total of seven boys with ages ranging between one and seven years were quickly evacuated from the Home and safely relocated to the compound opposite the Home.

Management Team of the Home informed LRT of plans to relocate the children to the house of the owner of the Home temporarily, to ensure their welfare was sustained.

The fire which had initially spread to the storage room of the home has been extinguished with dampening down concluded.