A care home business run by private health and care provider BUPA has been ordered to pay a record £1.04m after a resident died in a fire while smoking at one of its care homes.
London Fire Commissioner Andy Roe delivers his New Year message
Fifteen people have tragically died in fires in London in a month
A landlord has been found guilty of a series of fire safety failings which left residents with only one option to escape a fire - via a restaurant with a metal shutter that was closed at night.
London Fire Brigade has given its backing to a TfL ban of private e-scooters on London’s transport network, which comes after one caught fire on a packed tube train.
Crews from across the North East area of London Fire Brigade were joined by Historic Royal Palaces staff and colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Service and London Ambulance Service.
A property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large number of people to risk of death or serious injury from fire”.
To mark World Kindness Day the Brigade celebrates a man's kind act in helping to rescue a stranger
The UK’s tallest aerial ladder will become operational in London later this month
Nazir Afzal OBE appointed to Chair an independent review of culture at London Fire Brigade