An LFB incident is any emergency event that LFB responds to, including fires, false alarms and a wide range of non‑fire ‘special service’ incidents such as flooding, road traffic collisions or rescuing people trapped in lifts.
In 2025, LFB attended 137,412 incidents, equivalent to 376 incidents every day. This represented an increase of 33 per cent from the 103,514 incidents it attended in 2017.
While the number of incidents attended by LFB remained relatively stable between 2017 and 2020, since then it has climbed steadily year-on-year.
