About six rooms in a private residence were in the early hours of Tuesday gutted by fire at Akinsoji Zone, Ogbere Moradeyo, Oremeji Area of Ibadan.

The Chairman of the Oyo State Fire Services Agency, Maroof Akinwande, confirmed this in a statement to journalists on Tuesday in Ibadan.

Mr Akinwande said the agency’s personnel received a distress call at exactly 5:55 a.m. from one Mr Kayode and firemen led by CFS Adesina Olusoji were immediately deployed to the scene

He said, “On getting to the scene of the fire incident, it was a private residential building of six rooms engulfed by fire and our officers swung into action and restricted the fire from spreading to other nearby buildings.’’

The chairman said that the fire was jointly extinguished by the Oyo State fire services and the Federal Fire Service, Ibadan Command.

Mr Akinwande said though no casualty was recorded, the building was severely affected by the fire.

He said that the cause of the fire was traced to indiscriminate dropping of cigarette stub by one of the occupants that ignited nearby combustibles and set the building on fire.

The chairman urged all households in the state to install fire extinguishers in their respective houses to promptly put out fire whenever there was an outbreak.

(NAN)