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,under the leadership of superintendent Eyre Massey Shaw. It has 5,992 staff,including 5,096 operational firefighters and officers based at 102 fire stations.
Peter Gerard Hendy,Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill,,is a British transport executive and politician. He is the current chairman of Network Rail and was formerly the Commissioner of Transport for London.
Chief fire officer (CFO),formerly often just chief officer,is the highest rank in the fire and rescue services of the United Kingdom. There are currently 50 chief fire officers serving in the United Kingdom in charge of the local authority fire services. There is also a chief fire officer responsible for the Ministry of Defence Fire Services,which includes the Defence Fire and Rescue Service and the RAF Fire Service. Some UK airport fire services also designate their seniors officers as CFOs,though these officers rarely wear the same rank insignia as a local authority chief fire officer.
The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales,Northern Ireland,and Scotland.
Joseph Milner,was a senior officer in the British fire service.
The title and job role of His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services in England,Scotland and Wales is combined with that known as Fire and Rescue Adviser appointed by the devolved and national governments of the United Kingdom.
Sir David Edward John Ramsden CBE is a British economist and has been Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking at the Bank of England since 4 September 2017. He was previously Chief Economic Adviser to HM Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service,having previously served as Joint Head of the Service with Vicky Pryce,formerly Chief Economic Adviser and Director-General at the Department for Business,Innovation and Skills.
Ronald James Dobson,CBE,QFSM,FIFireE is a retired senior British firefighter. He was the Chief Fire Officer of the London Fire Brigade until 31 December 2016.
Danielle Amara "Dany" Cotton,is a British retired firefighter. From 2017–2019,she served as the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade and was the first woman to hold this position. She had previously been the Director of Safety and Assurance at the London Fire Brigade.
Alasdair George Hay,is a British firefighter. He was the first Chief Fire Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
On 14 June 2017,a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington,West London,at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. Seventy-two people died,two later in hospital,with more than 70 injured and 223 escaping. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha oil-platform disaster and the worst UK residential fire since the German Bombings of World War II.
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is a British public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire,which killed 72 people and destroyed Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017. It was ordered by Prime Minister Theresa May on the day following the fire.
Leslie William Thomas Leete was an English firefighter who became chief fire officer of the London Fire Brigade from 1962 to 1970 –the first LFB chief to have served in every rank within the Brigade.
Sir Crawford Dunlop Falconer is the United Kingdom's Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and is based in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT),which employs about 200 trade negotiators. He was recruited to the Civil Service in 2017 during the run-up to Brexit. As well as leading trade negotiation,he is the Second Permanent Secretary for DBT.
Sir Frederick William Delve,,was an English firefighter who became chief fire officer of the London Fire Brigade from 1948 to 1962,and was instrumental in the fire service's adoption of modern telecommunications technologies.
Martin Blunden is a British firefighter. He was the Chief Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service until he stepped down in 2022.
Andrew Dudley Roe KFSM is a former British Army officer and firefighter currently serving as the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade.
Sir Martin Peter Read,is a British businessman who has been Chairman of the Senior Salaries Review Body since January 2015,and Chairman of Wincanton plc since 2018.
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is a British public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire,which killed 72 people and destroyed Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017. It was ordered by Prime Minister Theresa May on the day following the fire.
Criticism of the response to the Grenfell Tower fire primarily consisted of condemnation of issues with the emergency response and fire safety regulation practices in the UK at the time. Broader political criticism was also directed at British society,including condemnation of the response by governmental bodies and UK politicians,social divisions,deregulation issues,and poor transparency overall.
