Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency on Monday began the immediate clearing of shop extensions that hindered big fire truck to get to the scene of a fire that gutted a Mandilas Building in Broad Street in the Lagos Island area of the state.

An aide to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Jubril Gawat, made this known in an update on the incident.

He also said the fire had been completely put out. “First responders are still very much on ground. Road Cordoned off and alternative roads are being well managed by officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), amongst others.

Fire gutted a warehouse in the 14-storey building on Sunday, with goods worth hundreds of millions destroyed. No casualty has been recorded so far.

Fire outbreaks are not new in markets in Nigeria. Over the years, Ladipo Market, Balogun Market, and others have been badly hot by inferno in the country’s commercial capital. Most of the incidents have been blamed on electrical surges and poor market structures which make it easy for the fire to spread.

Late response from emergency officials and lack of firefighting facilities have in the past hampered the fight against fires especially in public places.