HOW FIRE OUTBREAK RAVAGES 3 BUILDINGS IN NKPOR

                                                     
Goods and property worth millions of naira were lost recently when a fire outbreak that lasted for two days engulfed three buildings at Obosi Road, Nkpor Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Eye witness told our reporter that the fire started about 4 pm that Monday evening in a 3- storey building housing chemicals of different sorts belonging to LOTHAFREDA CHEMICAL COMPANIES(No 16 Obosi Road, Nkpor). The fire escalated to another 5-storey building behind the chemical house (No 2 Afam Uzoegwu Avenue) burning and destroying property of the tenants there.
Our reporters gathered that despite the efforts of the fire service fire fighters from Okpoko Station Onitsha and Government House station, Akwa the fire continued into the third building housing Summer Hill hospitals and Marternity (N0 14 Obosi Road, Nkpor).
 Speaking to our reporter, a victim of the fire incident Miss Chinwendu Onyechiri from Abia town in Udi Local Government Area, Enugu State said she was in her friends flat, the 3rd floor of no. 2 afam Uzoegwu avenue when the inferno stated.
“I was in the sitting room of my friends flat, suddenly I heard a deafening  noise and all of a sudden I saw fire surging into the house from the balcony covering everywhere with smoke. I tried to open the padlock leading to the step but it could not open. So I rushed and grabbed my handbag containing N15,000 and I quickly collected the N60, 000 I borrowed from a meeting group and held it with my teeth. After muttering some prayers, I jumped from the third floor in order to save my life. That was all I could remember. I only opened my eyes after few days to discover I was in the hospital. Since then I cannot walk. The X- ray and doctor said I sustained multiple fractures from the hip to my thigh,” Onyechiri said.
Onyechiri said she borrowed the money in other to use it to establish her younger brother who lost all his goods in the north due to the menace of Boko haram and who had been squatting with her here in the East since returning from the North.
“All that money was lost when I landed on the ground and passed out and the constitution of the meeting is that one must pay any debt whether dead or alive”; she lamented bitterly.
Miss Chinewndu  Onyechiri who is currently receiving treatment at Multicare hospital complex Omagba phase II   pleaded with well spirited Nigerians to come to her aid to assist in paying her hospital bills for better medication.
Another victim of the inferno Mr & Mrs Afamefuna Okwuorah who lost property and good whort up to a million naira said they thanked God for sparing their three children who were trapped in the building but escaped naked when the fire service came and arrested the situation in their own building in their absence.
    The fire officer in charge of Okpoko station, Mrs. Mary Afah spoke to our reporter at the scene of the incident said she was about leaving her office when she received a distress call by 4:05 pm Monday evening.
“ I dispatched our truck immediately we received the call by 4:05pm and started contacting Nnewi and Government House Awka station to complement our effort and since then till this Tuesday afternoon. We have been on top of the situation. She however pleaded with non governmental institutions and individuals to assist state government in financing the fire service Stations.