Lagos State Emergency Management Agency,LASEMA, will carry out and conduct proper investigation into Ijegun fire outbreak in Navy Town, Ojo area of Lagos State.

The Agency stated that it was alerted through the emergency toll free line and immediately activated its emergency response plan with all the relevant stakeholders.

According to LASEMA, it was discovered that one of the five tank filled with PMS exploded and resulted into the outbreak.

Its General Manager, Adesina Tiamiyu, said adequate and prompt response by the emergency responders were on ground to curtailed the inferno to only the PMS tank whilst others AGO and DPK tanks were salvaged from the inferno.

Tiamiyu emphasised the need for owners as well as managers of oil and gas companies to always ensure proper emergency response plan was put in place in such facilities.

Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe, said there was no casualty in the fire incident, saying the service received a distress call at 11:35 a.m. that a tank farm belonging to Stallionaire Nigeria Ltd was on fire.

“I immediately alerted the Ojoo fire station to rush to the scene but when I was told that it was tank farm, I signalled all other stations around.

“When we got there and discovered that the fire was raging seriously, I had to call on our Head Office for more fire engines.

“We discovered that apart from the Premium Motor Spirit tank which was on fire, there were four other tanks surrounding it.

“Our men are still around, carrying out the necessary checks to ensure that everything is out.

“We were able to put everything under control with the modern fire engines recently acquired by the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode,’’ he said.

Also speaking, a representative of NEMA, Olayinka Ajaba, said the fire incident was caused by a trans-loading problem.

According to Ajaba, they were trans-loading petrol manually into a tanker when the fire started and it gutted the tanker.

Divisional Police Officer, Ijegun, SP Audu Ibrahim, said he and his men ensured there was orderliness throughout the inferno.

Ibrahim said his men were still around the premises of the tank farm to ensure that nobody took advantage of the incident to create any problem.

Meanwhile, residents of the Ijegun Ibasa community where more than 10 tank farms are located have called on the state government to establish a fire service station in the area.