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Today marks 27 years since the Purley train crash, which claimed the lives of five people and left 88 injured. 
At 1339 on a rainy Saturday in 1989, a Littlehampton to Victoria express train crashed into the rear of a Horsham to Victoria bound train. 
Exercise Unified Response has coincided between two historical train incidents – the Moorgate tube disaster and Purley – showing the scope of work our firefighters do and that our crews must continue to learn from the past and train for future events. Do you remember where you were when you heard about the disaster? http://bit.ly/purley1989
London Fire Brigade - LFB 150 - 27 years since the fatal Purley train crash
As we celebrate our 150th anniversary we're looking back at some of the most significant and some of the more unusual incidents that have taken place since…
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Terry Vialls
Terry Vialls I was on that as well. Temp ADO.
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James Garlick
James Garlick Wow I remember that nasty one
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To the thousands of volunteers, hundreds of emergency responders, countless support staff and support organisations thank you so much for making Exercise Unified Response a massive success. The huge task now is to collect all the lessons learnt and put it to practice in the future. Thank you all once again  http://bit.ly/1pmxuK6
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Coach Direct Ltd Brilliant Event! Massive amounts of effort has been put in from everyone involved on screen and off. It was a great privilege to have a part in this event. Thanks guys and well done! x
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Katie Asgari
Katie Asgari It was an honour and privilege to work with such fantastic teams and do all the makeup. It enabled our students to gain valuable work experience, thank you for letting us be part of it x
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Our ‪#‎LFB150‬ photographic exhibition is on tour with the first stop being the London Museum of Water and Steam. The 28 selected images, all taken by Brigade photographers, reveal how equipment, stations, firefighting methods and the workforce have all changed and developed since the Brigade was first operational during the Victorian era. 
Have you got any historic pictures of London Fire Brigade in action? Share them here and we'll create an album of the best ones.
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Winni Ella Jarvis
Winni Ella Jarvis How long is this exhibition showing for?
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London Fire Brigade Till the 31 May.
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Kenneth Raven
Kenneth Raven Why only 28Photos where are all the other good JOBS Over MANY YEARS
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A huge blaze broke out at an industrial yard in the early hours of this morning, destroying a large pile of wooden pallets, a warehouse, eight cars, seven forklift trucks, six lorries and three caravans. These incredible photos from photographer Paul Wood show the fire at its height. Over 70 firefighters worked hard to extinguish the blaze, which was brought under control just before 6am. 
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Jon Thornton
Jon Thornton Bambergers!! Now there's a fire. Make pumps 50 in around an hour from call!! J25/A33 at its best xx
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Paul Wood
Paul Wood Jon and Don. I was thinking exactly the same about Bambergers. I was comparing the two sets of photos last night. Spookily similar!
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London Fire Brigade added 32 new photos to the album: Exercise Unified Response.
March 1 at 3:03am
Photos from our biggest ever disaster training exercise, Unified Response. Thousands of people are playing the part of 'casualties' and hundreds of firefighters from across the UK and Europe are taking part. The exercise features the scenario that a building has collapsed onto Waterloo station. 
Firefighters were joined at the exercise by hundreds of Metropolitan Police Service officers and colleagues from London Ambulance Service NHS Trustand British Transport Police
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Richard Nye
Richard Nye Why are you only mentioning ' firefighters' on these updates? I realise it's an LFB page but there are more than fire fighters on this excercise! LAS are there too. You extract the patients and LAS treat them. It's a TEAM effort of all emergency services.
26February 29 at 10:37am
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Nanci Carina Rios
Nanci Carina Rios This is telling us something!
Preparing us for something else than just a collapsed building!!!!
But the government would never be honest to us.....
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London Fire Brigade added 4 new photos to the album: Exercise Unified Response.
February 29 at 10:06am
Photos from our biggest ever disaster training exercise, Unified Response. Thousands of people are playing the part of 'casualties' and hundreds of firefighters from across the UK and Europe are taking part. The exercise features the scenario that a building has collapsed onto Waterloo station. 
Firefighters were joined at the exercise by hundreds of Metropolitan Police Service officers and colleagues from London Ambulance Service NHS Trustand British Transport Police
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Laurence Burnett, Trish Phillips, Maxime Bonhommet and 1,613 others like this.
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Richard Nye
Richard Nye Why are you only mentioning ' firefighters' on these updates? I realise it's an LFB page but there are more than fire fighters on this excercise! LAS are there too. You extract the patients and LAS treat them. It's a TEAM effort of all emergency services.
26February 29 at 10:37am
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