Tragedy struck, on Saturday, in Ibadan, Oyo State, when fire gutted Stribalag factory located at Olope meji in Egbeda, Egbeda Local Government area of the state, destroying multimillionaire machinery and other valuables.
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 tyres well alight, and 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’s no remnant of fire.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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