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Date: 19th May 2012



In spite of an incredibly busy year for London Fire Brigade, where a major blaze on The Strand, a huge fire under the M1 and, of course, the riots challenged the resources of the whole brigade, the number of fires and the number of people who lost their lives to fire in London actually fell last year. The brigade have provided us with a detailed breakdown of their year in fires.
Elsewhere in the magazine Steve Wright, Head of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue's Arson Task Force (ATF), has written exclusively for The Burning Issue on his role as head of the ATF and as a member of the Fire Investigation team; George Martin, the Fire and Rescue Service's National Liaison Officer for The Prince's Trust, writes for The Burning Issue on the importance between the Trust and the Fire Service.