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A fire engine of the London Fire Brigade, the second-largest service in the country after the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in action The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales , Northern Ireland , and Scotland .
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.
The Fire Brigades Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. c. 72) (in force until 1941, repealed 1947) was the primary legislation for Great Britain , excluding London, that placed responsibility for the provision of a fire brigade onto the local authority , and away from the insurance companies.
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 .
The introduction of the Fire Services Act 1947 [4] gave the fire brigade its first responsibilities for fire safety. Section 1 of the Fire Services Act defined the duties of a fire brigade and further went to say under section 1, sub-section 1 paragraph F, commonly referred to as 11(F), that a fire brigade must give advice and assistance on ...
The first fire brigade appeared in Kent in 1802, when the Kent Fire Office formed an insurance brigade in Deptford (which was at the time part of Kent). In the same year, and completely separately from insurance companies, Hythe became the first town in Kent to set up its own fire brigade, followed by Ashford in 1826.
An employee of a fire and rescue authority who is authorised in writing by the authority for the purposes of Section 25 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 and on duty may: [7] if the employee reasonably believes that a fire has broken out, do anything the employee reasonably believes to be necessary for the purpose of— extinguishing the fire; or
SS Torrey Canyon disaster, 18 March 1967 – This incident saw possibly the largest fire brigade attendance in UK history: 78 different brigades (with over 200 appliances, 147 of which responded from London Fire Brigade) and 38 different military units spread detergent and pumped out contaminated water. The clean-up lasted months and the ...