The City of Birmingham Fire Brigade was founded in 1875.
[1] In 1895 a new chief officer was appointed, Alfred Robert Tozer (senior).
Alfred Robert Tozer (senior) was formerly employed by Merryweather & Sons of Long Acre and Greenwich, London, where he had designed fire pumps.
[3] In 1967, the brigade was responsible for the deliberate destruction by fire of Witton Isolation Hospital, which had been used to treat people with Smallpox.
[4] The Birmingham Fire and Ambulance Service remained in existence until 1974 when it was amalgamated with other fire brigades in the West Midlands area to form the West Midlands Fire Service with the headquarters at Lancaster Circus, in Birmingham.