Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has constituted three committees to build holistic and effective response network aimed at reducing drastically, disaster outbreaks and their effects.

Its Director-General, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said this at a meeting with emergency response stakeholders at the agency’s headquarters in Lagos on Thursday attended by representatives of Lagos State and the federal fire services, Lagos State Ambulance Services, Lagos State Building Control Agency,
Neighbourhood Safety Agency, Julius Berger Plc., Rapid Response Squad and LASEMA.

The three committees are Protocol Action Plan for Disaster Management, Water Hydrants and Fire Service committees.

Oke-Osanyintolu said the committees were created to enhance emergency responses and disaster management as well as improve stakeholders’ collaboration during emergency operations, saying the Protocol Action Committee would look into crowd control during disaster management to ensure smooth and quick operations.

He said Water Hydrants Committee was formed to look at the need to build fire hydrants into the economically important places, saying the Fire Service Committee would look into the location of fire service offices.

Oke-Osanyintolu said the committees were set up after evaluation of a fire incident which took place on January twenty-four, urging stakeholders in emergency management to work as a team to reduce disaster effects to the barest minimum.

He said the three committees would, before the end of March, present suggestions on how to improve disaster management in the state, saying the agency was also determined to improve emergency responses in the various markets in the state.

The Director-General, urged market leaders to purchase industrial generators to collectively power their various markets to reduce fires associates with indiscriminate use of petrol.