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Incident response times - Fire Facts

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Greater London Authority
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25 September 2026
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Summary

This Fire Facts report sets out the key information on the response times to the 999 calls received by the London Fire Brigade.

It includes data and analysis on the various stages of emergency response from how long it takes people to call the fire brigade when a fire starts to how long it takes to handle the 999 call and for fire engines to arrive on scene and resolve the incident.

The methodology for counting fire engine response times changed slightly in 2015; see annex B to the 2017 document to see the methodology; Annex B to the 2016 documents highlights the changes that were made in 2015.

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Fire Facts - Incident response times 2013 (493 KB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2015 (879 KB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2016 (817 KB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2017 (871 KB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2017 (7 MB) XLSX – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2018 (7 MB) XLSX – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2018 (1 MB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2019 (983 KB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2019 (4 MB) XLSX – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2020 (4 MB) XLSX – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2020 (777 KB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2021 (1 MB) PDF – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2021 (4 MB) XLSX – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2022 (4 MB) XLSX – 25/9/2026
Fire Facts - Incident response times 2022 (847 KB) PDF – 25/9/2026

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