On Monday, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said it responded to at least 1,367 incidents between January and October.<\/p>\n
LASEMA announced this in a statement by its spokesman, Nosa Okunbor.<\/p>\n
A breakdown of the figure showed that the agency responded to 141 incidents in January and 156 in February.<\/p>\n
“In March we responded to 148, while in April, it was 132, May was 147, June 126, July 123, August 121, September 126 and October 147.<\/p>\n
This totalled 1,367 incidents attended so far by the agency this year and a grand total of 7,809 attended to by LASEMA from June 1, 2019, to date,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n
He noted that road crashes ranked highest, with a record of 50 vehicular incidents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was followed by 43 incidents in the truck and tanker category comprising 35 accidents, eight broken down trucks, and then 20 medical incidents in third place.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, we responded to 17 fire disasters, which consisted of 16 fire outbreaks and one burnt vehicle and BRT incident, among others,\u201d stated LASEMA.<\/p>\n
LASEMA also mentioned that its Local Government Emergency Trends revealed that Alimosho LG ranked highest with recorded incidents in October.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf the 20 local government areas in the state, Alimosho ranked highest with 29 out of the 147 incidents recorded during this period. This was followed by Oshodi-Isolo with 20 recorded incidents, closely followed by Ikeja with 18 recorded incidents and Kosofe with 14 recorded incidents.<\/p>\n
\u201cEti-Osa had 12 incidents, Lagos Island recorded 10, Epe eight\u00a0 incidents, while\u00a0 Apapa and Mainland recorded six each,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n
It added that Agege and Surulere recorded five incidents each, while Ojo and Mushin recorded three incidents each.<\/p>\n
LASEMA said, \u201cShomolu and outside Lagos boundary interventions both recorded two incidents each, while Amuwo-Odofin, Ibeju-Lekki, Ikorodu and Ifao-Ijaiye recorded an incident each, respectively. There was, however, no incident recorded in the Ajeromi-Ifelodun and Badagry local government areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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