On Saturday in Ibadan, Oyo State, a fire gutted the Stribalag factory located at Olope meji in Egbeda, Egbeda Local Government Area, destroying multimillion-dollar machinery and other valuables.
According to a report by Punch Metro, the fire started around 1pm.
The inferno claimed no lives, and the cause of the disaster remains unknown.
The state fire department arrived 30 minutes after the incident, and the men of the federal fire department arrived three hours later.
Confirming the incident on phone, the General Manager of the state Fire Service, Akinyinka Akinyemi, said, “The incident was reported at exactly 13:35hrs by one Rasaq alerting the agency of fire incident at a factory located at Egbeda.
“Fire services promptly deployed personnel of the agency to the scene of the incident. On arrival at the place of the fire incident, we met some hips disused tyres well alight, and fire contingent swiftly got into work and restricted the fire from where we met it and prevented the fire from being spread to the factory facilities.” He added.
As of press time, our correspondent gathered that men of fire service were still working there to salvage the place and make sure that there’s no remnant of fire.