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Do you dream at night while your phone is charging under your pillow? You could end up with nightmares, don’t charge your phone as you sleep!
Another person has shared their near miss with us, share this with those you think might need a reminder of electrical dangers.
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  • Cita Kristine No charging phone under the pillow or at all while asleep?
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  • Adam Potter Was it a Samsung S6 by any chance? This is what happened to my charger while I was sleeping and it was laid on a desk, not under a pillow...
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London Fire Brigade
Yesterday at 11:20am · 
From baking a few cakes for his watch to vying for the coveted position of Star Baker. Firefighter Mat Riley will be hoping he avoids Soggy Bottoms as he shows off his baking talents to the nation on this year’s Great British Bake Off.
The hit BBC One show starts at 8pm tonight and Mat will be firing up his oven and hoping he creates an Even Bake while fighting off competition from 11 other contestants.
To keep cake orders to a minimum and the paparazzi at bay we won’t be revealing what station Mat’s based at, but tune in at 8pm to follow his journey. More here: http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/…/LatestNewsReleases_GreatBri…
London Fire Brigade - Mat fired up for Great British Bake Off challenge
Firefighter Mat Riley has gone from baking a few cakes for his watch to showing his talents in front of millions on this year's Great British Bake Off. The hit BBC One...
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August 3 at 9:34am · 
This is the scene that Euston and Islington’s firefighters faced earlier when a tourist bus collided with a tree on Woburn Place in Bloomsbury.
Two fire engines and a fire rescue unit attended after an overhanging branch ripped the roof off the bus.
Four people were taken to hospital after the collision and 40 other uninjured passengers were looked after by police and LAS staff in a nearby building.
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  • Jackie Turner I drive my bus down there on a regular basis and there are warning signs on the trees further down the road than this I have not seen signs on the trees further up in Bloomsbury
    1 · August 3 at 9:50pm
  • Jonathan Ray Good job as always boys and girls!

    I was just wondering who would be considered at fault here from this type of scenario. Trees don't usually have height warning signs on them and the bus looks to be sat in the bus lane as normal, a lane considered safe for buses to use. Overhanging trees would be maintained by the council.    ...See More
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London Fire Brigade
August 2 at 2:34am · 
Most comprehensive fire data ever published in our near 150 year history shows that July is the busiest month, 7pm is the busiest hour, that half of all household fires start in the kitchen and Tower Hamlets has more blazes than any other borough. http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/…/LatestNewsReleases_londons-…
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  • Graeme Jackson You say that "Tower Hamlets has more blazes than any other borough" given that FACT 
    Why did you close Bow Fire Station, surely given that FACT that must put residents of Bow at risk!!
    Taking also into consideration that Kingsland has been closed as well !
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  • Anthony Barker Tower hamlets has more blazes than any other... yet they closed bow fire station?
    6 · August 2 at 3:56am
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July 31 at 11:30pm · 
We’ve got lots of events happening across the Brigade today. Get on your bike to Islington fire station where firefighters along with colleagues from the Met Police’s Road Safety Cycling team will be offering road safety advice to cyclists. There’ll also be the chance to sit in a HGV lorry to experience the driver’s view and raise awareness of the blind spots they face. The event is from 12pm to 3pm.
Croydon crews will be in the town centre raising road safety awareness and d...
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July 31 at 10:22am · 
A huge well done to Shoreditch red watch who have been praised by London Ambulance Service for saving the life of a man who collapsed outside their station.
The crew were alerted to the unconscious man by an off-duty firefighter who had been passing. They gave him oxygen and monitored his heart rate on a defibrillator until ambulance crews arrived.
After the incident the London Ambulance Service Joint Response Unit tweeted : "Well done @LondonFire (Shoreditch) crew who just c...
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  • Paul Szemerej Not much in life you can rely on but London's firefighters will never let you down. Well done guys and girls.
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  • Katrina Wilson A man had a Cardiac Arrest outside my local Fire Station a couple of months back during the strikes. The firefighters were fantastic, left the strike line to commence CPR. Alongside the Ambulance Service they saved this mans life.
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July 30 at 9:39am · 
The sun has been at it again this week!
The bedroom of a house in Wimbledon was left badly damaged after a dressing table make-up mirror focussed sunlight on to curtains starting a blaze.
Fortunately no-one was injured as the occupier was alerted to the fire by their smoke alarm.
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  • Joe Casey We had a close call with a snow globe melted the plastic housing on our TV set. The beam from the sun was reflected through the snow globe and redirected the sun beam to burn three holes into our TV.
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  • Paul Richardson The same thing can happen with car mirrors. These days modern car mirrors automatically turn in when the engine is switched off to prevent such accidents as this
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July 29 at 8:06am · 
Twelve years ago today, 100 firefighters battled flames at an office block behind Paddington Station.
The fire started on the seventh floor of the 11 floor building and 20 fire engines were sent to the scene.
Floors seven, eight, nine and 10 were destroyed in the blaze, which was brought under control nearly seven hours after crews were first called to the scene.
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  • Mark Blomfield I was at that fire. We nearly lost two colleagues. I was the senior accident investigator sent on
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  • Michael Billingham I remember it well I worked in Telstar House and driving in that night got a message not to rush, we spent the night waiting to see if we could salvage anything from our office. Scott Olivant , Jay had his car stuck in the car park lol
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July 28 at 9:17am · 
Great to see that we have an army of social media followers that have shared their wrong charger near misses in a bid to make others safer.
Mandy sent us the image of an iFake charger she bought from a market stall which caught alight and the second picture was sent by Jimmy, whose kitchen was left burnt after using the wrong charger with his electric cigarette.
Although both plugs exploded, they thankfully did not cause blazes - but you might not be so fortunate.
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  • Kevin Cook It's not just fake, Had a new 2 week old charger plug that came with the new phone that was getting way too hot, sent photos and e mail and explained that I was retired fire service and this would be taken further should it catch light they would be held responsible if nothing was done, new one came in post 3 days later.
    33 · July 28 at 11:35am
  • David Ryder I just don't charge my iphone anymore, this trick seems to have worked as I've never had a fire, mind I can't use my phone......... swings and roundabouts!
    41 · July 28 at 1:26pm
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July 27 at 7:55am · 
Almost 60 firefighters were called to tackle a fire at an historic pub in Marylebone on Saturday.
Eight fire engines were at the scene and crews worked hard to bring the fire under control quickly.
About half of the second floor and some of the third floor was damaged in the blaze. Part of the roof also collapsed.
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