{"id":1157203,"date":"2022-07-20T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/20\/fuel-tanker-explodes-destroys-vehicles-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:14:26","slug":"fuel-tanker-explodes-destroys-vehicles-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/20\/fuel-tanker-explodes-destroys-vehicles-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Tanker Explodes, Destroys Vehicles In Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fire officials battle the raging inferno at the Otto Wharf, Mile 2 area of Lagos State.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A tanker laden with diesel has exploded in Lagos, destroying several vehicles in the Otto wharf, Mile 2 area of the state.<\/p>\n

The incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday afternoon at an articulated vehicle motor park in the community.<\/p>\n

In viral video clips obtained by Channels Television on Wednesday, several vehicles could be seen burning as fire service officials battled the inferno.<\/p>\n

The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the incident via a statement, saying the agency activated its response plan after receiving a distress call to the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cUpon arrival at the scene by the agency response team, a fire outbreak from a fuel tanker and drums was encountered. LRT, LRU FIRE alongside LAGS FIRE and FED FIRE are currently battling the inferno to contain it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Oke-Osanyintolu, all stakeholders were on the ground to stop the fire from spreading further.<\/p>\n

The Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor on New Media, Jubril Gawat, also confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n

Taking to his Twitter handle on Tuesday, he shared pictures showing emergency officials responding to the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service is presently combating intense Fire at an articulated Motor Park, Otto Wharf, Mile 2, Lagos which resulted from a tanker carrying diesel that exploded and resulted in inferno reported at 3:44 pm,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fire officials battle the raging inferno at the Otto Wharf, Mile 2 area of Lagos State. A tanker laden with diesel has exploded in Lagos, destroying several vehicles in the Otto wharf, Mile 2 area of the state. The incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday afternoon at an articulated vehicle motor park in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1157205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}