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  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,482
    se9addick said:
    Pouring in London, where’s your global warming now?!
    Was it? Nothing at all in New Eltham. Could really do with some 
  • clive
    clive Posts: 20,620

    Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters are tackling a grass fire near Shrapnel Close in Woolwich.

    Around two hectares of grass and shrublands are alight. 

    The Brigade's Control Officers took the first of nearly 30 calls to the fire at 1127 and sent fire crews from East Greenwich, Eltham, Plumstead, Greenwich and surrounding fire stations to the scene. 

    https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2026/august/grass-fire-woolwich/

  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,308
    I saw a very large branch fall of a tree on Plumstead Common, where the path from Old Mill Road crosses the Common and joins the path opposite Macoma Terrace. So, the trees are in great distress from the heat and drought. Don’t park under them.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,101
    iainment said:
    I saw a very large branch fall of a tree on Plumstead Common, where the path from Old Mill Road crosses the Common and joins the path opposite Macoma Terrace. So, the trees are in great distress from the heat and drought. Don’t park under them.
    Some trees are already losing their leaves. We desperately need some substantial rain. 
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 15,022
    So I believe Oregon, the state I live in, has now set a record for the most amount of wildfires. And we're only at the start of August, whereas it usually gets really bad late in August. 

    The smoke came in this morning. Our winds shifted, and now the valley where I live is blanketed by smoke. It is keeping the temperatures down, but I have asthma that's smoke-induced so I can't really go outside much. AQI is *only* in the 150s, so could be a lot worse, but we have a whole week of this. It just sucks that in the middle of what is supposed to be the nice time of the year, we can't do much outside.* Obviously it's better this than in places like Spokane, where the wildfires are encroaching on the city. 

    *personally, I prefer fall and winter. I "winter well," which is an expression that I don't remember where I heard it but I love.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,575
    The amount of building rubble dumped on Dartford Heath I am surprised anything could catch light. 
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,575
    cfgs said:
    33 years as a firefighter in Kent, this year is bad with all the dead grass but four years ago it was mental.  

    It took years for the foliage to regenerate along the A2 at Dartford Heath, every time I went by I shuddered.  That same day is when LFB lost all those houses.
    Remember when Swanscombe ( All retained) managed to strand a brand new appliance in a field trying to deal with a car fire. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 48,411
    Good job Global Warming isn't a thing!
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,880
    usetobunkin said:
    cfgs said:
    33 years as a firefighter in Kent, this year is bad with all the dead grass but four years ago it was mental.  

    It took years for the foliage to regenerate along the A2 at Dartford Heath, every time I went by I shuddered.  That same day is when LFB lost all those houses.
    Remember when Swanscombe ( All retained) managed to strand a brand new appliance in a field trying to deal with a car fire. 
    Field fires are always fun when the wind changes, the amount of times a fire engine can't withdraw in time and they need rescuing.

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