{"id":241954,"date":"2026-08-23T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-electric-vehicle-fire-requires-expert-handling-fire-service\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:10:57","slug":"nigeria-why-electric-vehicle-fire-requires-expert-handling-fire-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-electric-vehicle-fire-requires-expert-handling-fire-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why Electric Vehicle Fire Requires Expert Handling &#8211; Fire Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Federal Fire Service, FFS, Lagos Command, has warned that fires involving electric vehicles, EVs, require specialised knowledge, equipment and response techniques, as Nigeria&#8217;s transition towards cleaner transportation gathers momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Chief Superintendent of Fire, Badmus Abdulsamad, gave the warning while presenting the command&#8217;s preparedness strategy for emergencies involving EVs and compressed natural gas, CNG-powered vehicles at the 3rd auto industry summit held in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Abdulsamad said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Fire Service, FFS, Lagos Command, has warned that fires involving electric vehicles, EVs, require specialised knowledge, equipment and response techniques, as Nigeria&#8217;s transition towards cleaner transportation gathers momentum. Chief Superintendent of Fire, Badmus Abdulsamad, gave the warning while presenting the command&#8217;s preparedness strategy for emergencies involving EVs and compressed natural gas, CNG-powered vehicles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9416,8957,6600,15923,257,4687,393,7163,5188,254,7765],"class_list":["post-241954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-electric","tag-expert","tag-fire","tag-handling","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-requires","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vehicle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}