With the Christmas party season fast approaching, we’ve joined forces with London Ambulance Service and Metropolitan Police to launch a new campaign calling on Londoners to ‘Eat, Drink & Be Safe’ over the festive period.
Over the next few weeks we know people will be out enjoying a drink or two, so we’re asking you to take a few simple steps so the Capital’s emergency services don’t have to interrupt your party.
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Our new search and rescue tags proved simply the best when they beat off stiff competition from giants like Coca Cola to win 'best industrial product design' at the prestigious Design Week Awards. The lightweight tags, that can be hung from a door, are designed to improve search and rescue practices and ultimately help save lives, by freeing up firefighters' vital time when they search large buildings. Judges praised the simplicity of the design for doing 'one thing especially well.' More: http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/…/LatestNewsReleases_brigade-…
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Tim Hudson
Tim Hudson We just used to have a piece of yellow road marking "crayon" in our pocket - just put a cross on each door as it was searched - simples !
Nick Zayatz
Nick Zayatz Yeah, big piece of sidewalk chalk works too. Make an "X" --first slash when you enter, second slash when you are out, also serves to let someone know room is in process of being searched. No second slash also indicates searcher possibly in trouble if conditions become "inhospitable"
Exercise Rosie and Jim (for you over 30s) tested our skills at a fire and explosion in a narrow boat on the Grand Union Canal. Thankfully Rosie and Jim are safe but if this was a real incident then the Old Ragdoll would be badly damaged.
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Sharon Bambrook
Sharon Bambrook Rosie and Jim, rosie and Jim chugging along on the old ragdoll,
Rosie and Jim, rosie and Jim and Pat she steers the boat!!!!
Adam Meritt
Adam Meritt 298 and Rosie and Jim was on for years when I was a kid?
A workman leapt from lorry as it fell into a 25 foot ditch on St John's Hill in Battersea. It caused a gas leak which led to traffic problems in the area. The man was taken to hospital and we wish him a speedy recovery http://bit.ly/1QKHFms
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David Lacey
David Lacey Legs down, unstable ground whilst craning, not good. 2015 wagon too 😟
John Williams
John Williams No i had a lucky escape it was a grab! Legs was down as they were suppose to whilst useing the crane!
Diana Matty
Diana Matty Greg Rogers trench with gas leak
Firefighters in Camden are backing the council's Know You're Not Alone campaign aimed at putting a stop to domestic violence and abuse in the borough. Here’s Borough Commander Andy Hearn and firefighters from Euston fire station showing their support. ‪#‎KnowYoureNotAlone‬
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Daz Cooper
Daz Cooper Maybe the Brigade should concentrate on abuse in the workplace.
This advertisement is nothing short of hypocrisy due to what I have endured and complained of within my place of work whilst serving 15 years within this Brigade. And for what?! I have wo...See More
Antonia Nicol
Antonia Nicol As we should in every borough
Next year this disused power station will host the capital’s largest ever multi-agency training exercise. 
Exercise Unified Response which has been a year in the planning, will see Littlebrook Power Station, near Dartford in Kent, transformed into the scene of a significant building collapse, involving a train station and resulting in mass casualties.
All of London’s emergency response organisations will take part in the exercise, along with specialised teams from across the ...
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Robert Mansfield
Robert Mansfield It would be interesting to know, how the brigade carry out an exercise like this, whilst maintaining fire cover in London?
Stephen John Birch
Stephen John Birch Will you have any fire engines left to exercise with I wonder?
It was a busy weekend for crews. On Saturday night, six fire engines and 35 firefighters dealt with this blaze at a church on Tottenham High Road.
Half of the ground floor, the whole of the mezzanine floor and part of the roof was damaged in the blaze but fortunately no-one was injured.
Read more about the weekends incidents here http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/latestincidents.asp
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Martin Lc Elliott
Martin Lc Elliott If it's so busy, why is borris wanting to cut more and more fire cover from London! Putting public and firefighters lives at risk
Caroline Hall
Caroline Hall I wonder why so many lovely old buildings catch fire? Seems to always be when building work is going , in which case it is sheer carelessness.. or arson. So sad (quite apart from the dangers to our fantastic fire fighters all over the country).
Lets hear it for the girls! For the first time in over five years we held a special firefighting course specifically aimed at teenage girls. 
Fourteen girls from Tottenham aged between 14 and 17 participated in the Local Intervention Fire Education (LIFE) course, which aims to boost a young person’s confidence and build aspirations by teaching effective communication, teamwork and leadership.
Normally aimed at both boys and girls, LIFE has been operating since 2002 and has re...
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Tim Crow
Tim Crow These are the most deprived areas in the country. Neither London, orTottenham appear in this list. WHERE do you get your facts from ??
•Middlesbrough
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Isaiah John
Isaiah John Check out mine and #CROWNJUL£$ BRAND NEW TUNE #FireSafety! Share this and support the movement And remember to always stay safe! #LFB