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The Director of the Delta State Fire Service Command, Dr. Eugene Oziwelle has again charged Deltans to be vigilant and cautious with their goods and properties as well as ensure they switch off any power source not in use.
Dr. Oziwelle gave the charge following several fire incidents that had destroyed goods and properties worth millions of Naira in the past week.
The Director of the State fire service, while commending men of the service for swiftly attending to the fire outbreaks across the state, urged residents to take extra care in ensuring that inflammable items are not put close to the house or anywhere it can cause damage.
According to him, the Delta State Fire Service Command has continued to minimize destruction of lives and properties across the state as the men of the command swiftly attended to several fire outbreaks across the state in the past one week.
In his words, “the Sapele Service Station has been the busiest in recent times as the station controlled and put out an inferno that had engulfed the Asaboro Sawmill Junction Wood market with woods worth millions of Naira destroyed.”
He said reports revealed that the fire outbreak started at about 2am on Saturday following an electrical spark, with men of the Sapele Service Station arriving the scene 10 minutes after receiving a distress call, and it took them about half an hour to totally put out the fire which was spreading rapidly.
The Command also averted a disaster along the Asaba Benin Expressway on Monday after a tanker carrying Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, collided with a low-bed trailer at the Customs CheckPoint close to the Okpanam City Gate, which resulted to the contents of the tanker spilling onto the road
The State Fire Service swiftly arrived at the scene to douse the petrol tanker and the already spilled petrol on the road with water to avoid explosion, while cordoning off the area from residents who might want to scoop free petrol.
The fire service station in Oleh also put out a fire out-break at a compound on Ogboni Street after a detached kitchen was left unattended.
Men of the Oleh Service Station who received a distress call swiftly arrived at the scene and put out the fire.
Dr Oziwelle revealed that the Sapele Service Station was again called into action on Tuesday as they put out a raging fire which would have spread into the main hotel lobby from a detached event center at the Wetland Hotel, Amukpe. The fire destroyed several tables and chairs as well as other properties in the hall. The firemen who arrived at the scene barely ten minutes after being alerted of the incident, quelled the inferno.
These incidents underscore the state government’s preparedness to continue to strengthen its disaster readiness capabilities through quick response to fire outbreaks, as well as its continuous sensitisation of citizens on safety consciousness
