Over a 1,000,000 imperial gallons (4,500,000 L 1,200,000 US gal) of alcohol was stored on the site and a combination of secure-proof building design and narrow streets hampered the efforts of the firefighters. Allan, along with 13 other Glasgow Fire Service colleagues and five from the Glasgow Salvage Corps, were killed at the whisky bond warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith & Co. Certain brigades may have been subsumed into other services (Bradford Fire Brigade into West Yorkshire) or completely dissolved altogether, such as the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Fire Brigade. Īs more than one firefighter has died at certain incidents, some listings for dead firefighters may refer to the first alphabetical entry from that event. This left Essex with one brigade covering the ceremonial county and Southend, which was a county borough, with its own independent fire service.

When the NFS was broken up, it was decided that local county authority control would be the natural way to divide the brigades. Some links that point to the NFS may actually link to the fire service that covers the present day geographical area. This totalled over 1,600 individual brigades. See History of fire brigades in the United Kingdomĭuring the period between 19, all fire brigades in Britain were amalgamated into the National Fire Service (NFS). Some links to the original fire authority areas may link to the present day authority that covers the geographic area.įor example, the West Riding Fire Service became the West Yorkshire Fire Service in 1974, and during this process parts of the former West Riding of Yorkshire area became part of East Yorkshire ( Humberside Fire and Rescue Service), Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Military firefighter personnel are only listed if they died during non-combatant fires or accidents. It also does not list the 997 firefighters killed during the Second World War, nor any deaths relating to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. As such, it only lists those firefighters killed or who sustained injuries from which they subsequently died whilst on duty and not those who were off-duty at the time of the event at which they died.

This article is a list of British firefighters killed in the line of duty since 1900.

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