Lagos expands fire response network with 11 new stations, 62 trucks

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has revealed that his medication has expanded the state’s exigency effect infrastructure with the constitution of 11 caller occurrence stations, the deployment of 62 state-of-the-art firefighting vehicles, the reconstruction of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service headquarters, and the recruitment of 150 further firefighters presently undergoing grooming astatine the upgraded Fire Academy.

The politician besides disclosed that exigency effect agencies successful the authorities rescued much than 1,900 radical and prevented spot losses estimated astatine N118 cardinal successful 2025.

Sanwo-Olu made the disclosure on Monday at the opening of the 3rd variation of the Lagos International Fire Safety Conference successful Ikeja, themed “Preventing the Preventable: Strengthening Fire Safety successful Buildings and Business Hubs.” He was represented astatine the lawsuit by the Deputy Governor, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat.

According to the governor, the authorities authorities remains committed to strengthening exigency effect capabilities portion placing greater accent connected prevent...