Fire on Thursday gutted Garkuwa FM, a private radio station owned by former Sokoto governor, Attahiru Bafarawa.
The fire which broke out in the morning, was said to have started from an electrical appliance.
A staff of the station, Umar Baffa who was in the studio before the incident, said it all started from a fuse of the air-conditioner.
“I saw a tiny flame of fire coming out of the Air Conditioner’s fuse and hurriedly rushed out to trip off the electricity to avoid escalation.
“However, when I got back, the whole section of the Recording Studio, Live Programme and the rest were already covered with a thick smoke.
“Those of us on duty made frantic efforts to rescue what we can, but the velocity of the fire was so ravaging that we had to save ourselves,” he said.
Baffa appreciated both the Federal and the State Fire Services for their prompt response during the incident.
He decried the colossal effect of the tragedy to the immediate employees of the radio station as well as their extended families and multiple listeners.
