Fire this Sunday morning broke out at the headquarters of the Christ Embassy Church in Lagos.
The church is run by famous Televangelist Pastor Chris Oyakhilome.
The fire raged through the main auditorium of the Christ Embassy Church, located on Billings Way, Ikeja, Lagos.
It reportedly fire started at 6am from a detached structure housing some 14 power generating sets, one of which allegedly burst into flames due to a power surge.
Upon noticing the conflagration, church members struggled to put it off with their in-house extinguishers.
However, the fire spread to the church’s main auditorium.
The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke Osanyintolu said: “There is no casualty, but one of the fire service men sustained injury. The church lost a number of power generating sets and other property.”
Director of Fire Service, Mr. Rasaq Fadipe, said that the fire raged for about three hours before it was finally put out by the emergency agencies.
Fadipe narrated: “It was a very serious fire outbreak. The fire involved the generator house. A lot of armoured cables were also affected by the inferno. They have about 14 big generators that were affected and the church’s stationary diesel and petrol tanks.”
