Tragedy struck, on Saturday, in Ibadan, Oyo State, when fire gutted the Stribalag factory located at Olope meji in Egbeda, Egbeda Local Government area of the state, destroying multimillionaire machinery and other valuables.
“PUNCH” gathered that the fire started around 1 pm.
No life was recorded lost in the inferno and the cause of the disaster is still sketchy.
The state fire service arrived 30 minutes after the incident while the men of the Federal fire service also joined them 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 tires well alight, and the 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 was no remnant of fire.
