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London Fire Brigade (LFB) has declared a major incident due to “a huge surge” in blazes across the capital amid the 40C heat. It comes after around 100 firefighters tackled a blaze in the ...
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is the fire and rescue service for London, the capital of the United Kingdom.It was formed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 90), under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw.
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) received the first call about the fire at 02:44 BST , [8] with the first firefighting crew arriving within five minutes and a second firefighting crew arriving within six minutes. [9] The LFB sent 45 fire engines and about 225 firefighters to the scene. A major incident was declared by the LFB. [10]
The cause of the fire was not yet known, the London Fire Brigade said. Staff and the public were safe and artworks were not in the area of the fire, a Somerset House official said.
London Fire Brigade: 13 July 1969: The Dudgeon's Wharf Explosion; the London Fire Brigade had been called out to a tank farm on the Isle of Dogs in East London when one of the tanks being demolished caught fire. Whilst five firemen were atop the structure trying to pour water in from the top to cool the tank, a worker on the site used a cutting ...
A fatal fire at a housing block in 2009 should have alerted the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to the “shortcomings” in its ability to fight blazes in high-rise buildings, the final report of the ...
Report of an inquiry into health and safety aspects of stoppages caused by fire and bomb alerts on London Underground, British Rail and other mass transit systems. HSE Books. ISBN 0-11-886394-0. Chambers, P. (2006). Body 115: The Story of the Last Victim of the King's Cross Fire. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-470-01808-9. Moodie, K. (1992).
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was told the fire service was ‘incompetent and incapable at every level’ to respond to the 2017 blaze.