Fire sacks 13 families from storey building in Warri

THIRTEEN families residing in a storey building along Ojabugbe Street in Warri were Sunday sacked by  fire which destroyed property worth millions of Naira at about 9am.

Similar fire also consumed another storey building housing Tonvic Hotel in Effurun, as goods worth millions of Naira were also  burnt.

The cause of both fire could not be ascertained by our correspondent who visited the scenes.

But rescue efforts were intensified to save wares of building material merchants trading at the basement  of the hotel building.

One of the Ojabugbe’s  fire victims, who declined comments, was seen gathering his  burnt personal effects from the  building.

Felix Isaac, another victim, said  he was  asleep on Sunday when the fire started from  the kitchen of his neighbour, simply identified as Mama Ike, a Kerosene seller.

Isaac, however, alleged that Mama Ike had left the plantain  she was frying to her13 year old son, Ike to take care of, “ minutes later, flames engulfed the top of the storey building.”

He added that sympathizers poured water and detergent (Omo) mixtures to help put out the fire before Men of the Delta State Fire arrived.

“Nobody left with anything, but I managed to rescue my plasma and home theatre. My clothes were burnt,  the others could not save a pin.” Isaac lamented.

Isaac also noted that since the incident,  no government representatives had visited the scene of the incident with a view to giving them succor.