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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.
Euston Fire Station. Euston Fire Station is a grade II* listed operational fire station in London utilized by the London Fire Brigade.Located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, [1] close to Euston railway station, it was built in 1901–1902 and altered and extended later in the twentieth century.
A London Fire Brigade station at Romford In 2002, Professor Sir George Bain was asked by the government to conduct a wide-ranging review of the fire service in the UK. His report, the Independent Review of the Fire Service , led to rapid changes to fire and rescue services, and was the basis of what eventually became the Fire and Rescue ...
A plant room at roof level is also alight, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said. The hotel, which has a restaurant on the ground floor, is a celebrity hotspot and has hosted A-listers including Jennifer ...
View of the fire station from the southwest. The Lambeth Fire Station is the former headquarters of the London Fire Brigade. It is a Moderne-style building built in 1937. It included a drill tower, behind, built at the same time. It also included a ramp to a water-level station for fireboats. The building is a Grade II listed building. [1]
Before 1974, all but one of the fire brigades in England and Wales used the term "Fire Brigade", the exception was the City of Salford, which called itself "Fire Department". After 1974, all but two of the new authorities adopted the term "Fire Service", the two exceptions being Avon County and County Cleveland.
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 ...
“Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters tackled a fire at a hotel on Chiltern Street in Marylebone,” the London Fire Brigade said in a statement. ... in the building when it was a ...