Wildfires are now an escalating risk: here’s how the UK needs to prepare ahead of next summer

By Chris Webber, Research Fellow in Equity in the Uniformed Public Services, Anglia Ruskin University
Liam Noll, Practitioner Fellow in Equity in the Uniformed Public Services, Anglia Ruskin University

Fire services across the UK are now working out how much they can do over the winter to prepare for one of the country’s escalating dangers: wildfires.

Baroness Brown, the chairwoman of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, recently told the BBC that not enough action has been taken, given that the UK is predicted to face longer, drier summers due to global warming.

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