Two people were seriously injured in Thursday’s fire, and the Kwara State Fire Department responded quickly when Cooking’s gas truck caught fire at a gas station in Kwara state capital Ilorin.
According to the State Fire Department, the incident occurred at the Grace Gas Plant Station at Itaerepa Junction off Asadam Road in the state’s Ilorin West Municipal Area.
The fire started when a wrecked gas delivery truck parked at a petrol station spread across an adjacent bungalow building and burned the building down, according to eyewitnesses.
The witness said that two men were seriously injured in the ravaging inferno.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the state Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, who confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Thursday night, said that the men of the fire service’ quick intervention saved the gas plant from exploding.
Adekunle said that the two men injured in the inferno had been taken to the state government health facility for treatment.
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The statement read, “Kwara State Fire Service has on November 3, 2022 saved a 30tons of cooking gas confined inside its tank from been exploded.
“This happened in a fire outbreak that occurred at Grace Gas Plant Station situated at Ita-Elepa Junction, Off Asa-Dam Road in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State.
“An eyewitness of the incident confirmed it to the firemen that the fire erupted from the damaged gas delivery truck parked inside the gas station. The man also added that two men had sustained serious injury from the ravaging inferno.
“Even though the firemen were able to perform assiduously in saving the gas plant from explosion, yet a nearby three-bedroom flat was affected by the inferno.
“However, the Director, Kwara State Fire Service, Prince Falade Olumuyiwa, urged every gas station to be more safety conscious in their day to day activities at their various stations.”
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