Hearth has destroyed a communications tower belonging to a telecommunications firm situated at Billy Okoye Boulevard Road, Agu-Awka, Awka., Anambra State.
Eyewitnesses attributed the hearth, which occurred on Friday, to forest fires that unfold to the mast's location.
It was gathered that the hearth fully broken the mast's producing set earlier than males of the Anambra State Hearth Service arrived on the scene to forestall the hearth from spreading to different areas.
The State Hearth Marshal, Martin Agbili, confirmed the incident and stated the hearth was later contained and extinguished.
Agbili stated: “On Friday at about 12.25pm, the Anambra State Hearth Service obtained a misery name concerning a hearth outbreak in an MTN tower at No. 69, Dr. Billy Okoye Boulevard Road, Agu-Awka.
“We instantly deployed our hearth engine and courageous firefighters to the scene. The hearth was later contained, managed and extinguished.
“The generator on the mast website was fully broken, however different tools on the website was spared.
“The reason for the hearth was a careless brush hearth that unfold to the mast.”
Equally, in one other hearth incident late within the night on Friday, a residential constructing at Quantity 2, Rockland Property (Ngozika Property Extension), Awka, was destroyed.
It was decided that the hearth began within the higher components of the constructing and fully razed it to the bottom earlier than firefighters arrived on the scene.
Agbili, who additionally confirmed the incident, stated: “Round 10.57pm on Friday, the State Hearth Service obtained an emergency name resulting from a hearth outbreak in a residential home at Rockland Property No. 2 (Ngozika Property Extension), Awka.
“We instantly deployed our hearth engine and courageous firefighters to the scene. We later fought, managed and fully extinguished the hearth.”
He stated the reason for the hearth was an electrical shock coming from the main bedroom, including that his males withdrew from the scene of the hearth round 1.50am on Saturday.
“Hearth extinguishers may have saved that constructing after the proprietor noticed the hearth coming from his room earlier than it took minutes to unfold. We knowledgeable them of this later.
“The time of the emergency name will at all times decide the response time. For those who name, we’ll find the hearth location in time to do the needful,” he added.
