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Forty fire engines and more than 200 firefighters and officers were called to a major tower block fire on the Lancaster West estate in north Kensington during the early hours of this morning.

Eight fire engines and 58 firefighters and officers were called to a flat fire on Kensington Gardens Square in Bayswater this evening (Saturday, 19 August). A turntable ladder was also used to tackle the blaze.

Three fire engines and around 15 firefighters were called to a fire in a building under construction on Moundfield Road in Stoke Newington N16 yesterday morning (3 August)

The director of a scrap tyre yard has been handed a suspended prison sentence for a series of fire safety offences after an emergency fire door was nailed shut in a building where workers were living

Following a national media story about children sleeping through the sound of smoke alarms the London Fire Brigade is stressing the importance of smoke alarms and teaching children about the dangers of fire.

Firefighters tackled a fire in a house in Enfield this week that is believed to have been caused by a vanity mirror. The mirror, which was close to a window, focused the sun’s rays, which set fire to the curtains of a front bedroom.

During today’s two hour Fire Brigades Union (FBU) strike the Brigade’s contingency crews attended a fire in a block of flats on Saint Leonards Street in Bromley by Bow.

A former fire cadet is calling on local businesses to back the scheme that helped him turn his life around. Without funding, the future of the London Fire Brigade’s cadet scheme is uncertain.

Firefighters tackled a fire in a heavily cluttered home in Shepherds Bush just hours before fire and care professionals held a summit to discuss issues of fires involving vulnerable people.

Our fire safety inspectors are urging Londoners living in purpose built blocks or houses(opens in a new window) converted into flats not to replace vital fire doors at the entrance to their properties with doors that don’t meet the required safety standards.