The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said that no fewer than seven children were rescued after fire engulfed an orphanage home engulfed on Sunday.
According to LASEMA, the children, all male were rescued from a one-storey buildinga housing their orphanage located on Wole Madariola Street in the Aguda area of the state.
The fire was said to have been caused by an an air conditioning unit in the house which went up in flames due to power surge.
The agency added that the seven male children aged between one and seven were successfully evacuated unhurt.
In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Nosa Okunbor, the agency confirmed that no injuries or casualties were recorded.
Meanwhile, the Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu said the children were safely relocated to the compound opposite the orphanage and later handed over to the Red Cross.
His words: “The fire which had initially spread to the storage room of the home has been extinguished with dampening down concluded.”
“Post Disaster Assessment revealed that the whole of the first floor was salvaged, while the fire was contained in the store room and the rest of the ground floor was also salvaged.
“The children were formally handed over to the Deputy Director, Mr Balogun and Mrs Rasheedat Sadik, both of the Child Protection Unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development, who then formally handed the seven children over to the Red Cross,” he said