Fleur Lombard QGM (27 May 1974 – 4 February 1996) was the first female firefighter to die on duty in peacetime Britain.

The plaque[3] at the site her ashes are interred records her parents as Roger and Jane Lombard and that she had a sister Rebecca.

[5] On graduating in 1994, Lombard received the Silver Axe Award, for most outstanding recruit on her training school.

[6] On 4 February 1996, when she was 21 years old, she was fighting a supermarket fire in Staple Hill, near Bristol, when she and her partner, Robert Seaman, were caught in a flashover.

[8] Robert Seaman was awarded the George Medal for bravery for returning to the burning building when he realised his partner had not followed him out.

[11] In her memory, Avon Fire and Rescue Service have set up the Fleur Lombard Bursary Fund.