MAIL ONLINE: London's burning! How wildfires start and how to put them out - as blazes break out across Britain amid the heatwave

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Period19 Jul 2022

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  • TitleLondon's burning! How wildfires start and how to put them out - as blazes break out across Britain amid the heatwave
    Media name/outletMail Online
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date19/07/22
    DescriptionAccording to Julia McMorrow, a researcher at the University of Manchester, the UK has a temperate climate that is not usually associated with wildfire, yet wildfires occur annually.

    'Severe fires by UK standards can occur in any year but became a significant hazard in drought years such as 1976, 1995, and 2003,' she said.

    'Although these fires did not cause fatalities and are not on the same scale as those that occur in North America, Australia, or the Mediterranean countries, they had negative impacts on ecosystem services in the short term.'
    URLhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11028729/How-wildfires-start-out.html
    PersonsJ.M. McMorrow

Keywords

  • heat waves
  • wildfires