There are four fire stations in the borough. These are in North Kensington, Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea.
The local fire service work with partners to ensure the fire safety of residents in the borough, working closely with the Council’s social services and other agencies looking after residents in their homes on a daily basis, to promote home fire safety visits. The work completed with partner organisations also helps the Brigade to meet its targets in reducing fire deaths and fire injuries from accidental dwelling fires.
The local stations and the dedicated Community Fire Safety team for the area attend community events to raise the profile and local residents’ awareness of Fire Brigade services.
Local Intervention Fire Education (LIFE) courses help to reduce arson and educate young people in the consequences of committing arson, which also develops their leadership, team and communication skills.
The London Fire Brigade’s five year headline targets (to March 2010) are as follows:
- to reduce accidental fires in people’s homes by 5 per cent
- to reduce the number of accidental fire-related deaths in the home by 20 per cent
- to reduce deliberate fires by 10 per cent
- to reduce hoax calls (malicious false alarms) by 5 per cent
- to maintain the current time it will take, on average, for the first fire engine to arrive at an incident
- to improve the time taken for a second fire engine to attend incidents across London
The London Safety Plan sets out the priorities for the London Fire Brigade to 2011 which include:
- fire safety regulation and enforcement
- community safety
- emergency response
- resilience to deal with one or more major incidents (including terrorist attacks)
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