A truck loaded with about 50,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) was on fire in front of the Governor Dapo Abiodun’s Office at Oke Mosan area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, in the early hours of Saturday, it has emerged.
According to Daily Post, the tanker was coming from Forte Oil, Ijora and was enroute Mobil, Adatan, in Abeokuta metropolis.
The driver, Nurudeen Yusuf, told newsmen that he, alongside two motor boys discovered a spark from the engine, which resulted in the fire outbreak.
It was gathered that the occupants of the tanker was evacuated by men of the Fire Service, stationed at Oke Mosan.
As the truck went up in flames, the firefighters raced to the scene to put out the fire, thereby averting what could have been a disaster.
In his words, the leader of the Federal Fire Service at the scene, DSF Sodiq Atanda, said it took the timely intervention of his men to put out the fire before it got to the body of the truck which could have had more damaging impact.
Wondering why the truck did not have a fire extinguisher, he expressed;
If not for the proximity of our station and the timely intervention of our men, this situation would have been worse.
