A fire outbreak at a residential building on Bola Street, Oyingbo, Lagos State, has claimed the life of a 103-year-old woman and destroyed several household items.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said it received a distress call about the incident around noon on Friday.
In a statement, LASEMA’s Permanent Secretary, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said responders arrived to find a bungalow with shops attached already engulfed in flames.
He said emergency protocols were immediately activated, but preliminary assessment confirmed that the centenarian had died in the incident.
According to him, the Lagos Response Team (LRT) reached the scene at about 12:13pm and observed that a residential bungalow with two shops had been razed by fire.
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The fire, he said, reportedly started in one of the rooms before spreading to other parts of the building, adding that the cause had yet to be determined at the time of reporting.
Oke-Osanyintolu confirmed that eight rooms, a mini flat, six shops and several household properties were affected by the inferno.
He added that the victim’s body had been recovered and handed over to the family, while the fire had been completely extinguished.
The permanent secretary said LASEMA’s LRT and Fire Unit, working with other emergency responders, successfully contained the fire, noting that dampening down, rescue and recovery operations had been concluded.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service (LSFRS) recently disclosed that 133 people died in 2,617 emergencies attended to by the agency in 2025.
The LSFRS Controller General, Margaret Adeseye, said the service responded to 1,685 fire incidents, representing about 85 per cent of all emergency calls, while 473 victims were rescued alive from various incidents.
