Impact of changes to fire stations/fire engines as a result of the Fifth London Safety Plan (LSP5) - Statement of Assurance 2014/15

Data about response times to incidents, fires and fire safety work to support analysis of impacts of the implementation of changes to London Fire Brigade fire stations and deployment of fire engines in January 2014 as a result of the LFEPA Fifth London Safety Plan (LSP5)

London Fire Brigade is the busiest fire and rescue service in England and one of the largest in the world. Each year LFB receives some 180,000 emergency ‘999’ calls of which just less than 100,000 are incidents requiring a fire engine response. On 9 January 2014, ten London fire stations were closed as part of the Authority’s Fifth London Safety Plan (LSP5), 14 fire engines (net) and one fire rescue unit were removed from service, and some other fire engines deployed to different stations.

In March 2015, the Authority’s Governance, Performance and Audit Committee (GPAC) requested a report assessing the impact of the LSP5 changes since January 2014, as part of the LFEPA Statement of Assurance 2014/15. A report to the GPAC was considered at the meeting held on 14 September 2015 (FEP2497 - Statement of Assurance 2014/15 and the impact of the Fifth London Safety Plan (LSP5)) and is available here. Included in that report are detailed data tables providing relevant data to help assess the impact of LSP5 changes at borough and ward level. Those datasets – which comprise appendices 3 and 4 of the report – are made available here in open format (CSV). 

LFEPA already published full datasets for incidents attended since January 2009 (which details about that incident including location), plus a dataset which details of every fire engine (pumping appliance) sent to an incident. These datasets are updated on a monthly basis.

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Also available is all fire engine mobilisations since January 2009

Also available is all LFB incident records since January 2009.