Fire ravages Fed Poly in Ado-Ekiti

School of Engineering office complex at the Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State was gutted by fire on Friday night.
The ravaging fire, which was first noticed at about 11:00 pm completely, razed the office complex housing the Office of the Dean of the School of Engineering and other adjourning offices including those of the departmental heads of mechanical, civil, electrical electronics and agricultural engineering and a large classroom.
It took the combined effort of the men of the Ekiti State Fire Service, the Polytechnic Fire Service team, security officials and students who took risks to prevent the fire from spreading to other facilities in the School.
Reacting to the fire incident, the rector of the institution, Dr. Taiwo Akande, described the incident as a disaster of monumental proportions.
Akande noted that many sensitive and un-replaceable documents and materials such as computer systems, furniture items, office cabinets and the building complex were affected.
She narrated that an emergency meeting of the governing council was still in session around 11:05 pm when some students raised alarm about the fire and to which everybody concerned responded promptly making necessary contact to persons and organisations that could assist in putting out the fire.
The rector, however, said that although the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained because there was neither electricity supply nor bush burning at the time of the incident, an investigation was on going to unravel the cause of the fire incident.