Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has said it took the combined efforts of both Bolade and Agege Fire stations to put out the fire that resulted from the early morning gas tanker explosion at Best Roof Gas Station, Baruwa, Ipaja, Lagos on Thursday.
In a situation report made available to FrontPage by the Acting Head, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Adeseye Margaret, facilities from the two stations were deployed immediately alert was received.
According to her, the alert was received at about 5.50 a.m.
“Action was swiftly taken by deploying Bolade and Agege Fire stations,” she said.
According to the fire fighter, on arrival at the scene, it was discovered that two gas trucks of various metric tonnes capacity at the gas plant were on fire.
That was after a number of explosions.
The raging and spreading fire was subsequently doused by the fire fighters.
Putting the fire out was said to have prevented further havoc that would have been caused.
It would be recalled that five were killed in the explosion while eight others were rescued alive but with injuries.
They are already receiving treatment.
A preliminary assessment of the incident revealed that 44 buildings, one school, one event centre, one church and 89 shops were affected.
Also affected were one tricycle, gas tankers, 23 electricity poles, two transformers and one motorcycle.
The explosion started at about 5.40 a.m. on Thursday when an LPG tanker was in the process of discharging at Best Roof plant station.
It was reported that the explosion occurred in the generator area which was said to be on during the discharge of the tanker’s content.
The explosion was said to have thrown the discharging tanker across the road, causing serious havoc.
It was revealed too that the gas plant had about 30 metric tons of gas in its underground tank.
It was also noted that there was a secondary gas leakage from the underground tank.
The fire is said to have been completely put out and the secondary gas leakage from the underground tank put under control.
