London Fire Brigade Mobilisation Records from 2009 to Present

January 2009 onward, this dataset details every fire engine sent to incidents by the London Fire Brigade, including deployment locations and arrival times. The data is split into two parts: 2009-2012 and 2013 to the previous month. It is published by the London Borough of Barnet under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire engine response times based on arrival and deployment times mentioned in the description
• Model fire station workload and resource allocation based on appliance mobilisation records
• Study the impact of fire station closures in 2014 on incident response based on the adjusted station areas
• Correlate mobilisation data with separate incident records to understand full emergency event timelines

Strengths

• Covers a long time series from January 2009 to the previous month
• Contains details for every fire engine mobilised, suggesting completeness for the covered period
• Station areas have been adjusted for consistency post-January 2014, facilitating longitudinal analysis

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

London Fire Brigade, published by London Borough of Barnet

Collection Method

Operational records of fire engine mobilisations

Time Range

January 2009 to the previous month

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:41.661350; freshness should be verified

Geography

London, United Kingdom