Fire Engulfs Ogun Trailer Park

A late-night fire on Saturday at the Obasanjo Trailer Park in Ogere, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, destroyed a tanker and several makeshift shops.

Our correspondent visited the scene on Sunday and gathered that the fire began around 11 p.m. on Saturday. It reportedly started in one of the shops before spreading to a truck that was under repair at the park.

An eyewitness, identified simply as Musa, told our correspondent that the combined efforts of the park’s occupants helped bring the fire under control. He said, “The fire started around 11 p.m. when we were already sleeping. I heard a loud blast, and before we realized what was happening, there was a fire outbreak. People around used buckets to fetch water from the gutter to quench the fire because there were no firefighters nearby.”