# What the fire brigade attends

> Nearly half of call-outs are false alarms. One in eight is a fire.

- Category: Crime
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `fire-incidents`
- Source: [London Fire Brigade](https://data.london.gov.uk/publisher/lfb)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-fire-brigade-attends](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-fire-brigade-attends)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/what-the-fire-brigade-attends](https://londongraph.com/data/what-the-fire-brigade-attends)

## Methodology

Every incident the London Fire Brigade attended since January 2024, counted by month and by the brigade's own three categories. False alarms — most raised by automatic detection equipment rather than by a person — are the largest single category, ahead of special services (flooding, lock-ins, road traffic collisions) and well ahead of fires. The most recent month in each release is partial and is not drawn.

## Visualisations

- [Incident trend](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-fire-brigade-attends): Follow fires, false alarms and special services across complete published months.
- [Incident detail](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-fire-brigade-attends?view=classification): Use area to compare the brigade's more detailed stop-code classifications.
- [Special services](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-fire-brigade-attends?view=special-services): Break out rescues, flooding, lock-ins, collisions and the other non-fire services recorded by the brigade.
- [When calls happen](https://londongraph.com/g/what-the-fire-brigade-attends?view=day-hour): Read incident counts across weekday and hour as a true two-dimensional matrix.

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