The Kano State Fire Service said it saved 1,055 lives and property worth 1.9 billion naira from 813 fire incidents in the state between January and December 2019.
The Public Relations Officer of the service, Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano.
Muhammed, however, said that 111 lives were lost during the period.
Muhammed said that property valued at 679 million naira were destroyed during the period, while the service received 744 rescue calls and 180 false alarms from residents.
He said road accidents, inferior electrical materials; use of boiling rings, as well as poor handling of electrical appliances, cooking gas and fireplace were major causes of the inferno.
