{"id":22564,"date":"2026-06-18T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=22564"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:11:09","slug":"fire-out-at-polaris-bank-tower-lagos-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/fire-out-at-polaris-bank-tower-lagos-island\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRE OUT AT POLARIS BANK TOWER, LAGOS ISLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has successfully extinguished a fire outbreak that occurred on the 3rd floor of the Polaris Bank Building, located at 61\/65 Broad Street, Lagos Island.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported at approximately 11:33 hours and involved a stationary saloon car parked on the 3rd floor of the 17-storey building, which serves as a parking facility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/decbc105-9ab3-498b-a283-97acbdade5d2-226x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/decbc105-9ab3-498b-a283-97acbdade5d2-226x300.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/decbc105-9ab3-498b-a283-97acbdade5d2-640x850.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/decbc105-9ab3-498b-a283-97acbdade5d2.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from the Ebute Elefun and Sari Iganmu Fire Stations promptly responded to the emergency and swiftly contained the fire, preventing it from spreading to other vehicles and sections of the building.<\/p>\n<p>The only damage recorded was to the affected vehicle and its immediate surroundings. No casualties or injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The firefighting operation has been successfully concluded, and normalcy has been fully restored to the area.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Adeseye<br \/>\nController General<br \/>\nLagos State Fire and Rescue Service (LSFRS)<br \/>\nJune 18, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has successfully extinguished a fire outbreak that occurred on the 3rd floor of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22566,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions\/22566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}