FCT Fire Service lost 16, saves 94 lives and property worth over ₦2.750bn in 9 months
The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Fire Service said it lost a total 16 lives, saved a total 94 lives and property worth over ₦2.750 billion in the territory in 388 fire outbreaks in the last nine months. This was disclosed in a fire and rescue statistics document forwarded to Fire Fighters Magazine by the agency’s …
Fire halts crude exports from Nigeria’s Qua Iboe terminal
Operator of ExxonMobil, the terminal that loads key crude products from the Qua Iboe axis to other parts of the country like India, US, Canada etc have been temporarily halted due to a fire incident at the terminal in Akwa Ibom State, Fire Fighters Magazine gathered. A staff of the Organization who spoke on anonymity …
Dry Season: FCT Fire Service Flags-Off fire Sensitization and Enlightenment Campaign to increase Fire Safety awareness, bans bush burning in the FCT
Acting Director of FCT Fire Service Engr. Sani Saidu has announced the outright ban of all forms of bush burning activities across the FCT forthwith. He made the disclosure at the inaugural flagged-off of the 2020/21 fire sensitization and enlightenment campaign to increase fire safety awareness across the FCT. The event which took place at …
Rauf – Federal Fire Service Saved Seventy four billion naira Assets in 2020
The Honourable Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the supervisory ministry in charge of the Federal Fire Service at a recent deployment of firefighting appliance at the Ondo State capital in Akure said the federal government is on it oars towards upgrading of Federal Fire Service for optimum performance in fire fighting and rescue operations. …
Oando tank farm: Gutted by fire.
If there is anything to go by, the Oando tank farm, at Gaskiya Road, Ijora Badia Lagos State has been gutted by fire, 5/11/2020. The Director of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (Lasema) said, the Oando tank farm, located at Gaskiya Road, Ijora Badia, has been gutted by fire, the site of the tank farm …
Fire erupts after explosion at Iranian petrochemicals plant
Report reaching us confirmed that an explosion caused a blaze at a petrochemicals plant in southwestern Iran this Friday (23/10/2020), according to state media. The country has been plagued by accidents at industrial facilities in recent months. The fire broke out at the aromatics unit of a petrochemical plant in the port city of …
Explosion and fire at munitions depot sends 2,000 fleeing in Russia
Villages in Ryazan region south-east of Moscow cleared after grass fire reaches military facility Russia has evacuated more than 2,000 people from nearby villages after a wildfire set off explosions at a munitions depot in the Ryazan region south-east of Moscow, officials said. More than 400 firefighters were battling into the evening on Wednesday 7th …
Another Gas tanker explodes in Lagos
Another gas tanker explosion has occurred again recalling the gas tanker that crash along Abuja/Lokoja on the 23rd September 2020 road killing about 23 persons. A similar incident has also occurred at the Ifako-Ijaye area of Lagos on Thursday, September 24, 2020, with at least 48 people sustaining burn injuries. Fire Fighters Magazine confirm that, …
