Metropolitan Fire Brigade (London)
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| Operational area | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| City | London |
| Address | Union Street, SE1 |
| Agency overview | |
| Established | 1865 |
| Employees | 5,992 |
| Annual budget | £389.2 million |
| Commissioner | Dany Cotton |
| Facilities and equipment | |
| Divisions | 5 |
| Stations | 103 |
| Engines | 157 |
| Trucks | 11 |
| Ladders | 11 |
| Rescues | 15 |
| USAR | 14 |
| Fireboats | 1 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is the statutory fire and rescue service for London. It was formed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act of 1865 under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw.
It is the second-largest of all the fire services in the United Kingdom, after the national Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the fifth-largest in the world, after the Tokyo Fire Department, New York City Fire Department, Paris Fire Brigade and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, with 5,992 staff, including 5,096 operational firefighters and officers based at 102 fire stations (plus one river station).
Dany Cotton is the Commissioner for Fire and Emergency Planning, which includes the position of Chief Fire Officer; she replaced Ron Dobson who served as Commissioner from 2007 until the end of 2016. Statutory responsibility for the running of the brigade lies with the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.
In 2013/14 the LFB handled 171,067 999 emergency calls. Of the calls it actually mobilised to, 20,934 were fires, including 10,992 that were of a serious nature, making it one of the busiest fire brigades in the world. In the same 12-month period, it received 3,172 hoax calls, the highest number of any UK fire service, but crews were mobilised to only 1,424 of them. In 2015/16 the LFB received 171,488 emergency calls. These consisted of: 20,773 fires, 30,066 special service callouts, and 48,696 false alarms.
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