SO SAD!!! How Dr Irene Damola Was Burnt To Death In An Early Morning Fire

 

A retired radiologist and the eldest child of late Ologbosere

of Warri Kingdom, Chief O. N. Rewane, was yesterday burnt

to death in an early morning fire in Lagos.

The cause of the fire that killed the 75-year-old Dr. Irene

Damola (nee Rewane) at her 5, Tola Adewunmi Street,

Maryland, Lagos residence, could not be ascertained at

press time. Vanguard gathered that the fire started from

her bedroom in the duplex occupied by her and a

domestic staff.

Eyewitnesses said smoke was noticed upstairs at midnight,

following which security men raised alarm. Efforts by the

private guards in the street to put out the fire failed.

Eyewitnesses said: “Some people even attempted to move

in to rescue Dr. Damola, but the entrance door was locked.

“The young lady living with her later opened the door.

By the time the fire was put out by the fire service men,

she had been burnt to death.” Lagos State Fire Service

Director, Mr. Rasaq Fadipe, said the fire service got to the

scene at about 4.02a.m.

as soon as they got the information and tried to save the

lives of the occupants. He said: “It is a five-bedroom

apartment. The woman, Dr. Irene Damola, lives upstairs,

while the young lady staying with her lives downstairs.

The fire started from her bedroom. “She made efforts to

escape, but the fire caught up with her at the door of her

bedroom, where my men met her dead. “We were able to

prevent the fire from spreading to the ground floor.

The corpse was handed over to policemen from Anthony

Village Division.” Late Dr. Damola retired as a radiologist

in Saudi Arabia before returning to Nigeria.

She also worked at Lagos University Hospital, LUTH.