Fire outbreaks at markets are on the rise, resulting in huge losses. Some victims have been left improvised. How can fire outbreaks be averted?It was meant to be business as usual for Lawrence Eze, a trader at Balogun Market.
He believed the fire would not spread out to his shop located on the first floor. Unknown to him that the fire, this time, took a deadly turn. The alarming rate of fire outbreaks at market places across the country, calls for concern. In the last few months, there have been recurring incidences claiming goods, lives and properties. Some of the market fire outbreaks include Surulere Plaza; Okobaba Plank market, Ebutte Meta; Dosunmu and Balogun market; Ochanja market, Anambra; Yan’Katako Market, Kano; Santana Market, Benin; a building close to Tejuosho Market, Yaba, among others.
Worried that the country has no accurate statistical data of fire incidences, he said efforts are ongoing to put in place an automated fire database. For Collins Ejike, he has resorted to hawking his wares he managed to salvage from the inferno around the market, pending when he can financial secure a shop.
“We must learn to secure our economy and particularly understand that traders are the heartbeat and engine of the economic life of every society. Therefore, securing the local investment they make would galvanise and guarantee confidence from the foreign investors we seek” he added.Tackling market fire can be traced down to the design stage of market construction.
Corroborating Lamidi, he reiterated that safety measures should be a consistent practise enforced on traders. As such, he advised that the weekly environmental sanitation observed on Thursdays in markets should have at least one-hour compulsory enlightenment session on fire safety tips for traders. The spokesman for the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency , Nosa Okunbor attributed electric power surge as the dominant cause of market fire outbreaks. He said about 50 per cent of such cases break out from air-conditioner sockets.
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