Fire Guts Pastor Oyakhilome’s Christ Embassy, Destroys Property Worth Millions of Naira

Officials of the Lagos State Fire Services battled the fire for over three hours before it was extinguished. The fire began around 6:30 pm on Tuesday.
The inferno burnt the entire generator room, with 14 giant generators inside the house, which were all burnt up.


The Director of the Lagos State Fire Services, Mr. Rasak Fadipe said “The Christ Embassy outbreak of fire involved the generator room with 14 mighty diesel driven generators, a lot of diesel and PMS storage tanks, the power house with many armoured cables and many big AC compressor machines.
According to him, fire service officials battle very hard before they could put out the fire which raged on for about three hours, adding that “we didn’t allow the tanks to burst. And we also prevented the fire from spreading to the air conditioner house.”
“When my men arrived the scene, the church restricted them as they wanted to take over the affairs of putting off the fire. I had four fire trucks on ground from Ilupeju, Isolo, Ikeja and Alausa with 10,000 tones of water each and 18 factory-fitted generating sets to combat the inferno,” he stated.
The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Femi Oke Osanyintolu said there was no casualty, but noted that one of the fire service men sustained injury while the church lost a number of its generating sets and properties.