{"id":10392,"date":"2026-06-18T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=10392"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:17:26","slug":"polaris-bank-dismisses-reports-of-34-deaths-in-broad-street-fire-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2026\/06\/18\/polaris-bank-dismisses-reports-of-34-deaths-in-broad-street-fire-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Bank Dismisses Reports of 34 Deaths in Broad Street Fire Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The management of Polaris Bank Limited has refuted claims that 34 people died in the fire incident that occurred at its Broad Street branch car park in Lagos on thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the bank said the fire originated from a customer&#8217;s vehicle parked on the third-floor car park of the branch.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bank, its emergency response procedures were immediately activated, while firefighters and other emergency responders swiftly intervened to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The bank confirmed that no lives were lost and no casualties were recorded in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It therefore, described reports circulating on social media alleging that more than 34 people were feared dead as false and entirely inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>It added that assessments and investigations into the cause of the incident are ongoing while expressing appreciation to emergency responders, staff, customers, and other stakeholders for their support and prompt response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of Polaris Bank Limited has refuted claims that 34 people died in the fire incident that occurred at its Broad Street branch car park in Lagos on thursday. In a statement, the bank said the fire originated from a customer&#8217;s vehicle parked on the third-floor car park of the branch. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10394,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions\/10394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}