The M4 motorway was closed westbound between junctions 1 and 3 after a bus caught fire on Thursday night, the Highways Agency said. The vehicle app...

Almost 100 firefighters and officers are tackling a "sizeable" fire at a library in south east London. Part of the roof of the Newington Library on...

Two people have been arrested by police investigating a house fire in which a woman and two children died. A 20-year-old woman, a boy aged four and...

The London Fire Brigade has brought one of the capital's "biggest ever fires" under control in East London as the Olympics comes to an end. More th...

A 57-year-old man has died following a flat fire, police said. Firefighters and police were called to a ground-floor flat in Queen Street, Long Eat...

A person has died in a fire at a disused hostel that left three other people injured, police said on Saturday night. Forty firefighters tackled the...

If you have a cat stuck up a tree, or a chimp up a chimney, the fire brigade should not be the first people you call, fire chiefs said today. Londo...

A mother whose two-year-old son died in a head-on collision has also lost her unborn baby, police said today. She and her husband remain in a criti...

The Eat My Goal Euro campaign by the London Fire Brigade (LFB) wants fans to get a takeaway and not to cook after the pub during Euro 2012, but how is social media helping it reach audiences?

A fire chief has warned England football fans to get a takeaway on their way home from the pub during Euro 2012 rather than risk burning down their ho...

Four people were taken to hospital after an advertising board featuring supermodel Kate Moss collapsed on London's busiest shopping street. The hoa...

Firefighters have been called to a blaze near Wood Lane, in west London, after a fire broke out at industrial building thought to be Unigate Dairy. ...

London Fire Brigade had its quietest bonfire night on record this year, thanks to people staying in to watch Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor, a...