This is a reworking of a Telegraph story (behind a paywall) based on interviews with fire chiefs following an emergency meeting with the government yesterday about the risk of wildfires this weekend. There have been similar warnings in Scotland and N.I. Note that we still don’t seem to be seeing true forest fires (fire spreading tree to tree) but we are seeing burning of trees next to or surrounded by combustible ground vegetation like grass, gorse etc.
Woodland culture in Britain
