Seven children got rescued on Sunday after fire gutted a storey building occupied by an orphanage home on Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of Lagos State.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in an issued statement on Monday, said the inferno was caused by a power surge that emanated from an air conditioning unit in the building.
The Permanent Secretary Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu said the Agency received the distress call on the fire incident at about 2:43 pm.
Some part of the Statement revealed that 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.
