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00:03 Tragedy struck in the heart of Ohorosho Key
00:09 as a devastating fire tore through people's homes,
00:12 leaving families homeless and their belongings
00:14 reduced to ash.
00:17 Fire crashed everywhere.
00:21 The fire from my backyard come.
00:25 So I thought I would not reach my area,
00:29 and I did not remove anything.
00:32 At around 10 AM Thursday morning,
00:34 chaos unfolded on Owodoni Street, Carwash Bus Stop,
00:38 as flames ravaged through the neighborhood.
00:41 We are in a very painful situation right now.
00:44 You can see.
00:46 Fire has set our houses ablaze.
00:49 It renders us homeless.
00:51 We don't have anywhere to stay.
00:52 So we are just roaming around the street everywhere.
00:57 We didn't have any hope.
00:59 Both fridge, freezer, and I'm selling
01:02 market inside my house.
01:04 Everything, all my market have burned.
01:06 I don't have anything.
01:08 Only me.
01:09 I do this.
01:10 I be.
01:11 I buy my own.
01:12 Over two generator, dispenser, washing machine, iron,
01:16 customer clothes, even my clothes, my baby clothes,
01:20 my wife clothes, my sister clothes.
01:22 None of them that I picked yesterday.
01:26 But what caused the catastrophic incident?
01:29 I was in jail.
01:32 I was in my room.
01:34 I tried a lot.
01:36 I was trying to get out of jail.
01:40 I was hit by a car.
01:41 I was hit by a car.
01:44 We don't know how the fire took us.
01:47 Whether it was a spiritual fire or physical.
01:51 I don't know the way the fire took us yesterday.
01:55 Because when we went to the fire for this site,
01:58 the other side fire would start.
02:00 I said, OK, let me go to my shop site.
02:01 Let me go.
02:02 I might leave this site.
02:03 I begin to pack customer clothes outside.
02:06 Before noon, they don't enter my--
02:08 I want to find out how the fire take--
02:11 enter that site.
02:12 That's why before noon, I can't enter the room again.
02:15 Everything has dropped down.
02:18 I don't carry anything.
02:19 So boys now help to pour those chemicals, those water,
02:25 say, for the fire to quench the fire.
02:28 But the fire, the way the fire take home,
02:31 it's in fact, say, nobody.
02:34 Before, I bring a lot of people out to be--
02:37 to be help them unpack their load outside.
02:40 They say, before noon, the fire from--
02:44 the way it be like, maybe they throw the fire, say,
02:48 into direct to the-- all those things
02:50 that I help those people, say, because none of them the house.
02:53 Even though at the point of this report,
02:55 we've not been able to find the exact cause of the fire,
02:59 residents, however, think the instability of power supply
03:02 at the time the fire started out is a potential cause.
03:07 At the club that I go, I borrow from one of my friends
03:12 inside where that's called--
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03:19 I have to appeal to the local government chairman,
03:24 person that is representing us also in the state of assembly,
03:29 and also our governor, should please come to our aid.
03:32 The situation now, everything downpour.
03:35 We don't have anything now.
03:36 No house, no market, nothing, not even our money.
03:41 Almost 500,000, it burned.
03:44 Like, my neighbor, he have like 1.5 million inside.
03:47 Everything burned.
03:49 So we don't know where to start.
03:51 We need government assistance to come and assist us.
03:53 Anyhow, government can do it.
03:55 They didn't come and do it right now, because we are homeless.
04:01 But beyond the physical damage, there's
04:03 also an emotional toll on the community.
04:06 The Bale expressed their devastation,
04:08 imploring the government to extend a helping hand
04:11 in this dire time of need.
04:12 The resilience of the Oworoshoke community
04:33 will shine through, but they cannot rebuild alone.
04:36 It is imperative for us to come together
04:38 to offer support, empathy, and tangible aid to those in need.
04:43 As we get more on this story, visit www.guardian.ng for more.
04:48 Bye for now.
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