Index
1. Official Website + Info
1A. Misc Info
2. Unofficial Website plus Info
3. Fire Stations
4. Misc Info
5. Dispatch and Radio and Radio Codes
6. Misc Info - 1999 Station Closures - Stations with Units - etc
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1. Official Website + Info
(the FD website is being updated August 2000 per a notice on their website)
London Fire Brigade - United Kingdom - May 1999 - basic info from the Official Website
7,600 staff (6,200 are firefighting staff) - 4 shifts/tours of firefighting staff - 1587 square kilometers / 620 square miles - ?8 million population - 113 land stations plus 1 river station - 4 to 6 firefighters per pumper - 5 firefighters per rescue - 2 firefighters per ladder/aerial
Civilian fire death totals : 1988 = 144 : 1989 = 133 : 1990 = 121 : 1991 = 104 : 1992 = 120 : 1993 = 82 : 1994 = 86
Firefighters killed in the line of duty : 1987 = 1 : 1991 = 2 : 1992 = 1 : 1993 = 1
On the radio - units from Station H21 are known as H211, H212, etc. Each unit has 1 portable radio.
click here for the London FD website
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1A. Misc Info
?25 engines closed in last 20 years - fire deaths up in last 2 years - see Parliament report below
1982 info - "International Concepts in Fire Protection" - 114 land stations + 2 river stations - 2 vehicles per station - usually 6 firefighters per vehicle with a minimum of 4 staff per vehicle.
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2. Unoffical Website
Another great website by a London firefighter - �Great LFB Website� - fire deaths 1993 at 82 - 1994 at 86 - smoke detector use at 50% in 1992 - up to 75% in ?1997 - normal attendance to a building fire is 2 pumps - bigger fires are called "a make up" - response levels are 4E /6E /8E /10E /12E /15E /20E /30E (E = pumps = pumpers = engines = appliances = tenders = vehicles) - statistics are listed for 1997 showing which stations had the largest numbers of large fires - pumpers have 3910 litre per minute pumps and 1365 litre water tanks (1000 GPM / 350 gallon), crews of 4 to 6 and carry hydraulic rescue tools - photos of E, L, Snorkel, and Heavy Rescue - there are 4 platoons/shifts/squads of firefighters - they work 2 day shifts, then 2 night shifts, then 4 days off - has a list of stations in each of 3 Command Areas - reorganized to 3 Command Areas in ?1995
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3. Fire StationsCENTRAL A20 Paddington HQ A21 Paddington - L A22 Manchester Square - L A23 Euston - L A24 Soho - L A25 Westminster A26 Knightsbridge A27 Clerkenwell A28 Dowgate A29 Barbican - L A30 Islington A31 Holloway A32 Hornsey A33 Tottenham - L A34 Edmonton A35 Enfield A36 Southgate A37 Barnet A38 Mill Hill A39 Finchley A40 Hendon A41 West Hampstead Dagenham A42 Belsize A43 Kentish Town
SOUTHEAST E20 Lewisham HQ E21 Lewisham E22 Greenwich - L E23 East Greenwich E24 Woolwich E25 Plumstead E26 Shooters Hill E27 Erith E28 Bexley E29 Lee Green E30 Eltham E31 Forest Hill E32 Downham E33 Southwark E34 Dockhead - L E35 Old Kent Road E36 Deptford E37 Peckham E38 New Cross E39 Bromley - L E40 Sidcup E41 Ordington E42 Biggin Hill E43 Beckenham
EAST F20 Stratford HQ F21 Stratford F22 Poplar - L F23 Millwall F24 Shoreditch - L F25 Shadwell F26 Bethnal Green F27 Bow F28 Homerton F29 Leyton F30 Leytonstone F31 Kingsland - L F32 South Newington / Stoke Newington F33 White Chapel F34 Chingford F35 Woodford F36 Walthamstown F37 Hainualt F38 Romford F39 Hornchurch F40 Wennington F41 Dagenham - L F42 Ilford F43 Barking F44 Eastham F45 Plaistow - L F46 Silvertown
NORTHWEST G20 Wembley HQ G21 Harrow G22 Stanmore G23 Hillingdon G24 Southall G25 Ealing G26 Acton G27 North Kensington G28 Willsden G29 Park Royal G30 Wembley - L G31 North Holt G32 Ruislip G33 Kensington - L G34 Chelsea G35 Fulham G36 Hammersmith G37 Chiswick G38 Heston - L G39 Feltham G40 Hayes - L G56 Heathrow Airport
SOUTH H20 Croydon HQ H21 Clapham H22 Lambeth - L H23 Lambeth River H24 Brixton - L H25 West Norwood H26 Addington H27 Battersea H28 Woodside H29 Purley H30 Sanderstead H31 Croydon - L H32 Norbury H33 Wandsworth H34 Wimbledon - L H35 Tooting H36 Mitcham H37 Wallington H38 Sutton H39 Surbition H40 New Malden H41 Kingston - L H42 Richmond H43 Twickenham (on M2FN not M2FS)
Note - L = turntable ladder
That list of stations was taken from a Scanner website if I remember correctly. Ladders are listed at 22 stations. (In May 2000 - London is only operating 16 Ladders).
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August 2000 - from uk.community.firefighting - each ladder operates with either 1 or 2 certified ladder operators (?3 week course)
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Most stations have a pump, and a pump escape. About 10% of the stations have a turntable ladder, hydraulic platform, tower ladder, or rescue unit. There is 1 fireboat on the Thames River. Staffing is 5 people per each pump, pump escape, and rescue unit. Staffing on aerial units is 2 people.
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Info from a October 1999 post to the uk.community.firefighting news group. In 1975, LFB had 28 TL (turntable ladders) on the run (in operation). Presently, LFB has 6 ALP + 5 HP (Hydraulic Platforms/Snorkels) + 5 TL on the run. [Could this be Liverpool Fire Brigade instead of London Fire Brigade? (not likely).]
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May 5, 1999 - from the London Fire Brigade website - saving $1.6 million per year by hiring fewer cooks - in 1995, the Brigade was reorganized into East, West, and South Commands - in 1998, efforts are underway to reduce 1 engine at the Hornchurch, Addington, Hillingdon, Finchley, and Heston stations - 1 additional pump is required at Heathrow Airport because the 2nd due pump cannot reach the terminals in under 5 minutes - approximately 120 civilians and 1 firefighter die per year.
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London England Fire Brigade profile 112 land stations 1 river station operating 2 fireboats 170 Pumps 16 Aerials 5 Rescue/Hazmat Units 5 Fire Investigation Units 4 Fire Control Units (command post) 1 Brigade Control Unit Population protected: 8,000,000 Area protected: 1857 km2 Total LFB personnel: 7200 Line personnel: 5900 working a 4-platoon 42-hr work schedule.Source - 17 May 2000 from World Of Fire at www.firehouse.com
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4. Dispatch and Radio
Dispatch - the 3 fire command centers were merged/consolidated into Lambeth HQ in 1990. All fire appliances/vehicles/units ?have mobile data terminals.
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Radio
All appliances have 1 portable radio and 1 mobile radio. If station E43 had 9 units, their radio numbers would be - H431 is the pump escape/ladder - H432 is pump - H433 is turntable ladder - H434 is hydraulic platform (snorkel) - H435 is aerial ladder platform - H436 is rescue tender - H437 is hose tender - H438 is damage control tender - H439 is ?fire boat (tender = truck = rig = appliance = motor vehicle = camion)(see www.g7hid.freeserve.co.uk)
Translation - Truck = rig = appliance = tender = apparatus = lorry
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Radio System
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Mobile and Base Radios
Channel 0 - 80.0125 AM - truck to truck
Channel 1 - 70.525R AM - M2FH - spare channel
Channel 2 - 70.9625R AM - M2FS - South
Channel 3 - 70.7625R AM - M2FE - North East
Channel 4 - 70.175R AM - M2FN - North West - ?71.175 actually
Channel 5 - 71.3375 ?AM - North ?spare channel
Channel 21 - 80.0125 ?NFM - truck to truck
Channel 22 - 80.075 ?NFM - truck to truck
Channel - ?? - 81.95 ?NFM - Operations Rooms
Channel 4 - may be 71.175 or 71.15
Data - 70.9125 (8/99-Data Channel-FH-Ch5-71.3125/71.3375)
?Pagers - 148.825
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Portable Radios
Channel 1 - 457.0375 NarrowFM
Channel 2 - 462.5875R - 457.0875input
Channel 3 - 457.0125 NFM
Channel 4 - 457.1875 NFM
Channel 5 - 462.6375R - 457.1375input
Channel 6 - 457.2375 NFM
Channel 10 - 451.40R - 465.40input
Channel ?12 - ?451.45B - 465.45M
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8/99 post to rec.radio.scanner.uk - 457.00 to 457.50 - fire mobile links 12.5kHz - simplex and base splits - +5.5Mhz - London Fire brigade have Channels 1 thru 6 on UHF - per 996_lover@deja
?Other Channels - 451.40 Ch1 all FDs in UK
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per http://waverider.co.uk/~dspace9
England + Wales - all NFM - all seem to be shared with Police to various degrees in the UK
Fire Ch 2 - 452.25 - 452.3625
Fire/Police Link Repeaters - Ch8 - 452.5375
General Fire Incidents - 452.6375
Police and Fire Link Channel 97 - 451.40
Fire Channel 1 - 451.40 - Police Channel 10
Police and Fire Link Channel 99 - 451.45
Fire Channel ?2 or ?3 - 451.45 - Police Channel 12
General Fire Incident Ch 4 - 451.475 - Police Ch 13
Fire BA Ch 6 - 451.525
Fire BA Ch 2 - 451.6125 - not shared with Police
Fire BA Ch 3 - 451.775
Fire Command Ch 70 - 450.30
(?all paired with freqs 13.90 Mhz higher)
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Here are the radio codes used by the London Fire Brigade - taken from a newsgroup August 1999 - �Codes�
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All of the above/preceeding info was compiled in 1999 (except as noted). The info stating that each rig has 1 portable radio came from an employee of the London Brigade during 1999.
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Discussions in Parliament About Closing London Fire Stations - 1999
Note - The London Encyclopedia - Ref 942.1003 - 4 entries under "fire" in the index in the back - "Great Fire" has about 1 full page of info
A List of London Fire Brigade Stations with Assigned Units - ?1999
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22 Nov 00 - info taken from the London Fire Brigade Website
We protect the people and property, of the 32 London boroughs and the Corporation of London, from fire and other hazards, covering an area of 1,587 kilometres (620 square miles). We respond to thousands of calls a year. In 1998/1999 we responded to 160,639 calls, 95% within three seconds. We attended 71,938 false alarms in 1998/1999, of which 13,000 were hoax calls. We attend thousands of fires a year. In 1998/1999 we attended 41,103 fires. We also attend special services, such as road accidents or people stuck in lifts. In 1998/1999 we attended 47,598 special services.
How We Do It
We have 112 fire stations and one river station which are staffed every day of the year. The stations are grouped together geographically into area commands, with each command headed by an Assistant Chief Fire Officer.
� We respond to thousands of calls each year. All emergency calls are received at the high tech control roomin the Command and Mobilising Centre at our headquarters in Lambeth. We answer about 95% of calls within three seconds, and all emergencies are responded to immediately however great or small.
We employ 7,200 staff. Staff based in area offices, or at our headquarters, deal with much of fire safety work, provide support services, and emergency planning. Of the 7,200 staff, 5,900 are operational firefighters. To provide round-the-clock cover, we operate a four-watch system at stations- red, white, blue and green watches.
London Fire Stations
The London Fire Brigade is split into three commands. A list of fire stations and boroughs for each command is shown below:Southern Headquarters 249/259 Lewisham High St London SE13 6NH General Enquires 020 7587 2561
Eastern Headquarters 2 Ferns Road London E15 4LX General Enquires 020 7587 2411
Western Headquarters 591A Harrow Road Wembley Middlesex HA0 2EG General Enquires 020 7587 2731
Boroughs Boroughs Boroughs
Bexley Bromley Croydon Greenwich Kingston-upon-Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Southwalk Sutton Wandsworth
Barking and Dagenham City of London Enfield Hackney Haringey Havering Islington Newham Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest
Barnet Brent Camden Ealing Harrow Hillingdon Hammersmith & Fulham Hounslow Kensington & Chelsea Richmond-upon-Thames Westminster
Stations Stations Stations
Addington Battersea Beckenham Bexley Biggin Hill Brixton Bromley Clapham Croydon Deptford Dockhead Downham E. Greenwich Eltham Erith Forest Hill Greenwich Kingston Lambeth Lambeth (River) Lee Green Lewisham Mitcham New Cross New Malden Norbury Old Kent Road Orpington Peckham Plumstead Purley Sidcup Southwalk Surbiton Sutton Tooting Wallington Wandsworth W. Norwood Wimbledon Woodside Woolwich
Barking Bethnal Green Bow Chingford Clerkenwell Dagenham Dowgate East Ham Edmonton Enfield Hainault Holloway Homerton Hornchurch Hornsey Ilford Islington Kingsland Leyton Leytonstone Millwall Plaistow Poplar Romford Shadwell Shoreditch Silvertown Southgate Stoke Newington Stratford Tottenham Walthamstow Wennington Whitechapel Woodford
Acton Barnet Belsize Chelsea Chiswick Ealing Euston Feltham Finchley Fulham Hammersmith Harrow Hayes Heathrow Hendon Heston Hillingdon Kensington Kentish Town Knightsbridge Manchester Square Mill Hill North Kensington Northolt Paddington Park Royal Richmond Ruislip Soho Southall Stanmore Twickenham Wembley West Hampstead Westminster Willesden
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File Created - 3 May 1999 - by Peter Szerlag
Updated - 17 May 2000 - overview info from WOF - 26Aug00 - multi items added - 22Nov00 - info from official website added
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