Seven children Saved as Fires Burnt Orphanage Home in Lagos

Following the unfortunate fire incidence that occurred on 16th July, 2023, seven children were rescued from the storey building occupied by an orphanage home located at Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State. 

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in a statement on Monday, July 17, 2023 revealed that the fire was caused due to a power spark that emanated from an air conditioning unit in the building.

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

“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.”