Firefighters from the London Fire Brigade respond to an emergency on Church Street, Stoke Newington, London. They have been called out due to an explosion in the basement of a shop. The London Fire Brigade is the 4th largest fire-service in the world. The firefighter in the middle of the image is a woman. As of 2012 there are 257 female firefighters in the London Fire Brigade. As of March 2007 the proportion of operational firefighters in the UK who were women was

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