Property worth hundreds of millions of naira were destroyed when fire razed the main auditorium of Christ Embassy Church, located on Billings Way, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
Swifteradio.com gathered that the fire started at 6.30am from an apartment which housed about 14 power generating sets.
The fire is said to have started as a result of power surge from one of the generating sets.
Eyewitnesses told Swifteradio.com that when the church members noticed the fire, they tried putting it off with their in-house extinguishers.
But the fire spread to the church main auditorium. The church management declined speaking to the press.
The General Manager of Lagos State Emergency Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke Osanyintolu and Director of Fire Service, Mr. Rasaq Fadipe, said that the fire raged for about three hours before it was finally put out by the emergency agencies.
Oke Osanyintolu said: “There is no casualty, but one of the fire service men sustained injury. The church lost a number of power generating sets and other property.”
According to Fadipe, “it was a very serious fire outbreak. The fire involved the generator house. A lot of armoured cables were also affected by the inferno. They have about 14 big generators that were affected and the church’s stationary diesel and petrol tanks.
SOURCE: Swifteradio.com
