Fire Guts 10 Shops At The Wuse Market
By: Nkechi Isa
No fewer than 10 Shops were razed down during a fire incident at the Wuse Market in Abuja, Tuesday.
The Acting Director-General of FEMA, Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim Sabo, who made disclosure said the fire has since been brought under control by a combined team of the Federal Fire Service, FCT Fire Service, and the Julius Berger Fire Department.
However, the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
According to him, the FCT Emergency Management Agency FEMA received a distress call on the 112 emergency toll-free number at 4.05 pm about a fire incident at Wuse Market and the Agency as the lead coordinating body for all emergencies in the FCT, thereafter activated its stakeholders including the FCT Fire Service, Federal Fire Service, National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) FCT Police Command, and the Julius Berger Fire Service to the scene of the incident.
The Director-General said that no life was lost in the fire incident.
He, thus, appealed to FCT residents to equip their homes and business places with basic fire fighting equipment like extinguishers and fire blankets.
Sabo noted that the 10 Shops affected by the fire incident did not have an extinguisher; adding that access to the place was unhampered allowing the fire trucks to effectively fight the fire.
Going forward, the DG further appealed to the market management to put a fire tinder in place.
Sabo urged FCT residents to avoid storing petroleum products and other combustible items in their homes.
He called on residents to always use the 112 emergency toll-free number in the event of an emergency.
