We see campaigning as another form of firefighting. We are not afraid to speak out on your behalf and work with local authorities and other agencies on various projects. These typically focus on five themes:
- Improving safety and reducing risk
- Targeting high-risk and vulnerable people
- Lobbying for fire safety measures (especially sprinklers) in buildings
- Working with developers and the building industry to optimise safety in new buildings
- Improving access to fire safety information
Current and past campaigns
London Fire Brigade campaigns have included:
- ‘Total Recalls’: campaigning to make white goods safer and improve the national product recall system
- ‘Know the Plan’: increasing awareness of what to do if there is a fire where people live, especially if it is in a high-rise building
- Supporting new regulations requiring landlords to install working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in their properties and distributing free smoke alarms to those most at risk
- Reducing non-emergency calls to people shut in lifts
- Reducing calls to incidents that other agencies (like the RSPCA) should attend, such as non- emergency animal rescues
- Reducing kitchen fires caused by people drinking alcohol and cooking at the same time
- Reducing the number and impact of fires in waste and recycling facilities
- Supporting national communications, such as the government’s ‘Fire Kills’ campaign
