At the same time, the Greater London Authority (GLA) was established to administer the LFEPA and coordinate emergency planning for London. The LFCDA was replaced in 2000 by the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority. In 1986 the Greater London Council (GLC) was disbanded and a new statutory authority, the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority (LFCDA), was formed to take responsibility for the LFB. With the formation of Greater London in 1965, this absorbed most of the Middlesex Fire Brigade, the borough brigades for West Ham, East Ham and Croydon and parts of the Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey and Kent brigades. The separate London Fire Brigade for the County of London was re-established in 1948.
LFB firefighters at a warehouse in south London after a major fire in 1980ĭuring the Second World War the country's brigades were amalgamated into a single National Fire Service. The LFB moved into a new headquarters built by Higgs and Hill on the Albert Embankment in Lambeth in 1937, where it remained until 2007. In 1904 it was renamed as the London Fire Brigade.
After due consideration, in 1865 the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act was passed, creating the Metropolitan Fire Brigade under the leadership of Eyre Massey Shaw, a former head of police and fire services in Belfast. Several large fires, most notably at the Palace of Westminster in 1834 and the 1861 Tooley Street fire (in which Braidwood died in action, aged 61), spurred the insurance companies to lobby the British government to provide the brigade at public expense and management. With 80 firefighters and 13 fire stations, the unit was still a private enterprise, funded by the insurance companies and as such was responsible mainly for saving material goods from fire. He introduced a uniform that, for the first time, included personal protection from the hazards of firefighting.
As demands grew on the primitive firefighting units they began to coordinate and co-operate with each other until, on 1 January 1833, the London Fire Engine Establishment was formed under the leadership of James Braidwood, who had founded the first professional, municipal fire brigade in Edinburgh. The 1861 Tooley Street fire from Billingsgateįollowing a multitude of ad-hoc firefighting arrangements and the Great Fire of London, various insurance companies established firefighting units to tackle fires that occurred in buildings that their respective companies insured. Since 2016, the LFB has provided first aid for some life-threatening medical emergencies (e.g. It does not provide an ambulance service as this function is performed by the London Ambulance Service as an independent NHS trust, although all LFB firefighters are trained in first aid and all of its fire engines carry first aid equipment. It also conducts emergency planning and performs fire safety inspections and education. As well as firefighting, the LFB also responds to road traffic collisions, floods, shut-in- lift releases, and other incidents such as those involving hazardous materials or major transport accidents. These consisted of: 20,773 fires, 48,696 false alarms of fire and 30,066 other calls for service.
In the 2015-16 financial year the LFB received 171,488 emergency calls. The brigade and Commissioner are overseen by the Greater London Authority, which in 2018 took over these responsibilities from the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA). The LFB is led by the Commissioner for Fire and Emergency Planning, a position currently held by Andy Roe. It has 5,992 staff, including 5,096 operational firefighters and officers based at 102 fire stations (plus one river station). It was formed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865, under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw. The London Fire Brigade ( LFB) is the fire and rescue service for London, the capital of the United Kingdom. For other uses, see LFB (disambiguation).
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