The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA on Monday, revealed that seven children were rescued from an orphanage home that gutted fire on Sunday
In a statement by LASEMA, the fire at the one-storey building located at Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State was caused by a power surge that emanated from an air conditioning unit in the building.
Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, LASEMA’s Permanent Secretary said the Agency received the distress call on the fire incident at about 2:43 pm.
The statement read in part, “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.”
“Post Disaster Assessment revealed that the whole of the first floor was salvaged, while the fire was contained in the store room. The rest of the ground floor was also salvaged.
Additionally, the statement disclosed that the children were formally handed over to the Deputy Directors of the Child Protection Unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Mr Balogun, and Mrs Rasheedat Sadik.
Afterwards, they formally handed the seven children over to the RED CROSS.
He added that no injuries, nor casualties were recorded in the near-fatal incident. The operation, he said, was successfully concluded in record time.

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