Fire
A section of the building housing Dunukofia Local Government Area secretariat in Ukpo, Dunukofia, Anambra State, experienced a fire outbreak.
Reporters revealed that the fire outbreak occurred late on Wednesday, and was as a result of bush burning close to the local government secretariat.
Confirming the incident to reporters in Anambra, the Anambra State Fire Chief, Martin Agbili, who confirmed Wednesday’s incident at the LG secretariat, said it started around 6:53 pm on Wednesday.
Agbili said, “At about 18:53hrs (6.53 pm) of Wednesday, Anambra State Fire Service received a distress call of a heavy fire outbreak at Dunukofia.
“Immediately, we deployed our fire truck and gallant Firefighters to the scene of the fire and fought, controlled and extinguished the fire.
“The cause of the fire was a bush fire which was started by an unknown person(s) and encroached into the local government council secretariat.
“During the firefighting operations, we were able to control and extinguish the fire and prevent it from destroying a lot of things at the local government council.
“We withdrew from the fire scene at about 20:30hrs after fighting the fire to a standstill and calming the situation”, he added.
