When firemen made you wish to run into the fire instead of running out. A London Fire Brigade fireman, wearing a smoke helmet, 1908. The London Fire Brigade, usually referred to as LFB, was created in 1865, and nowadays is the second-largest of all the fire services in the United Kingdom, after the national Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the fifth-largest in the world, after Tokyo, New York City, Paris and, as told before, the Scottish service.