Normalcy has returned to the area where a one-storey building went on fire in the early hours of Wednesday in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
The building, The Precision NG gathered was also housing a school, but owing to the public holiday declared by the State government, scores of children would have been traumatized following the inferno.
Efforts by the fire service to put off the inferno proved abortive just as self help by residents and passersby yielded minimal results.
The Precision NG gathered that the fire incident destroyed properties worth millions of naira but it was stopped from consuming an adjacent petrol filling station.
Eye witnesses said the early morning inferno began from one of the rooms in the affected one-storey building adajcent the Akure South PDP office which is opposite the Ondo state ministry of works on Oyemekun road.
Officials of the federal fire service responded to the incident but could do nothing to salvage the building which also housed a primary school.
The school children were however lucky to be at home following the public holiday declared by the state government as a result of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s second term inauguration ceremony.
Not being able to provide any respite, the fire service personnel retreated amidst anger by the people while the people sought alternative from private water services provider.
Good Samaritans armed with buckets, bowls, soap and water from available sources came to the rescue to prevent the fire from getting to other buildings including a petrol filling station.
Residents of the building as well as sympathisers expressed their disappointment in the inability of the fire service to stop the inferno which destroyed properties worth millions of naira.
While normalcy has returned to the area, the people are still counting their losses and optimistic of support from concerned authorities.
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