Baby Dies In Fire Outbreak After Mum Locks Her Indoor In Lagos

PUNCH Metro learnt that the child was locked up in the room by the mother, who was cooking in the kitchen.

She was said to have left the kitchen for somewhere else, when the fire broke out.

Residents called officials of the Lagos State Fire Service. But it was too late as the building had been razed down, while the child was burnt to death.

A witness said:
 “The family, Mr. and Mrs. Monday, just moved into the house. The woman was cooking something in the kitchen and she locked up her baby in the room. She later left the house. A few minutes later, fire broke out in the house and people called the fire service. But by the time they came, the structure had been razed, while the baby was dead.”

The Director of the state fire service, Rasak Fadipe, who confirmed the incident, said firefighters from the Lekki Phase 2 station responded with 10,000 litres of water, adding that the damage had been done before they could get there.

Fadipe, who said the rate of fire outbreak was increasing due to the harmattan season, said the agency responded to other four fire incidents. He said:
 “The incident happened around 10am and our men from Eti-Osa went there. Preliminary investigation shows that the baby was locked up inside the room while the mother cooked in the kitchen where the fire started from.

People should be careful at this period. Refuse burning is rampant and people have to be warned to stop the habit. We should start policing one another. If you see somebody packing refuse, or bags of dirt, watch how he or she will dispose it because if the person sets fire on it, there is a tendency it can lead to a fire outbreak.

“Anytime there is fire, please don’t hesitate to call the fire service. Even if you can handle it, call us just in case it gets out of hand.”

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Posted: at 11-12-2015 06:31 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

The mother is very careless. How can she leave the baby all alone in the house, what stops her from taking the baby with her? Useless mother

Posted: at 11-12-2015 07:02 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

Let us not be too hasty to blame the mother here.
A lot of us here know how caring for a baby is. Once the baby sleeps, we don't want to wake her up and it's time for you to do all the things you were supposed to do like house chores....etc.
We also know babies can be stolen from their parents' houses if left unattended for even as little as 5minutes (I think there was a story like that here earlier this year).
If she'd left the door open and the baby was missing when she got back, we'd label her BAD MOTHER.
If she'd carried the baby into the kitchen while cooking (probably with kerosene), and the baby had developed respiratory problems from smoke inhalation, we'd have labeled her CARELESS MOTHER.
The only question we should be asking is "for how long was she gone?"
If it wasn't long, then I see it as no fault of hers.

Posted: at 11-12-2015 08:22 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

@x-avier,you have spoken well,you are the true son of your mother,you spoke as if you are a woman&a mother,am strongly behind u.

Posted: at 11-12-2015 09:10 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

Careless mother, this will show as a good example to other mother to always have good care and vigilant to their babies.

Posted: at 11-12-2015 10:27 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

يراقب الله !!!

Posted: at 11-12-2015 03:11 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

so painful that the baby died

Posted: at 12-12-2015 12:53 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

It's not advisable for any parent to lock up a child in the house but she never had knew this will happen,sorry woman and R.I.P poor child.

Posted: at 13-12-2015 07:40 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

Oh no. What sad news.

Posted: at 7-01-2016 04:06 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac