Calabar thrown into darkness as fire guts transmission station – Lifestyle Nigeria

Parts of Calabar in Cross River have been thrown into darkness as one of the transformers servicing the capital city at the 132/33 KV Sub-Station in Tinapa, Adiabo area was gutted by fire.

Following the incident, the whole of Atimbo in Calabar Municipality, State Housing Estate and IBB Way were in darkness.

The incident occurred on Saturday when workmen were working on the transformer.

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The fire, which took several hours to put out, saw the equipment still billowing with smoke on Sunday morning.

Although, the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, a witness in the neighborhood, Mr Johnson Okon, said they first heard an explosion and later balls of fire burning at the station.

“We just heard the sound and saw fire; we all ran out and many people were shouting but we could do nothing; we don’t know what caused the fire,” he said.

A security man at the sub-station who pleaded anonymity, however, said no live was lost in the incident.

“They were actually working on the transformer when it caught fire and thank God nobody died or got injured in the process,” he stated.

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