The rescued six-month old baby. Photo: Oyo State Fire Service.
The Oyo State Fire Service has rescued a six-month-old baby from a fire incident at the Olomi Compound in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Witnesses told The PUNCH that the fire, which occurred at about 8:38 p.m. on Saturday, started on the ground floor of a private one-storey residential building comprising three rooms due to an unattended gas leak.
Confirming the incident in a statement issued in Ibadan, the state capital, on Sunday, the Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Fire Reform and Chairman of the Fire Services Reform, Morrof Akinwande, said the agency received a distress call from one Mr Abiodun Mayowa reporting the fire.
Akinwande said, “At exactly 20:38 hrs on Saturday, July 11, 2026, our office received a distress call through a telephone call from Mr Abiodun Mayowa reporting a house on fire at Olomi Compound in Ogbomoso.
