# Where the brigade goes

> Fifty thousand call-outs in a year, coloured by what they turned out to be.

- Category: Crime
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `fire-points`
- 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/where-the-brigade-goes](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-brigade-goes)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/where-the-brigade-goes](https://londongraph.com/data/where-the-brigade-goes)

## Methodology

Every London Fire Brigade incident in the last twelve complete months, at the coordinates the brigade records. Colour separates a fire from a false alarm from a special service. The full release runs back to 2009 and is far too large to draw at once; this is the rolling year, steppable by month.

## Visualisations

- [Incident map](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-brigade-goes): Explore the last twelve complete months of geocoded call-outs by incident type.
- [Hotspots](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-brigade-goes?view=hotspots): Aggregate the selected months into relative on-screen concentration while retaining true local counts.
- [Resources over time](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-brigade-goes?view=resources): Follow mean pumps attending, calls received and the brigade's notional incident cost as separate monthly panels. Caveat: Notional cost is the brigade's published accounting estimate, not an invoice or damage valuation.
- [Mapped breakdown](https://londongraph.com/g/where-the-brigade-goes?view=breakdown): Summarise mapped incident categories without sending every coordinate to the browser.

## Citation guidance

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