(12 Aug 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK – 12 August 2025
1. Various aerials of London Fire Brigade firefighters and resources as they tackle a fire stretching across around 4 hectares ++MUTE++
2. Various of vast area of grasslands charred black, burnt with areas still smoking as firefighters hose down the area with water
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Jackson, Station Commander at London Fire Brigade:
"What you can see behind us is a grass fire covering approximately 3 to 4 hectares, not exactly that but it’s in that rough area. Currently we have 10 machines here, we had our first machine here shortly after the first calls that come in. We had 38 calls come to this today and it was quickly made up to more machines, very evident from what was going on from the officer in charge. So currently 10 machines, we have one wildfire vehicle here. And as you can see behind we’ve just got grassland that has spread through the fire which catches with the wind. We’ve got a bit of wind today, doesn’t help us."
4. Various of firefighters putting out grassfire
5. Close of firefighter stamping out a small flame with his boot
6. Close of burnt grass
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Jackson, Station Commander at London Fire Brigade:
"If you look down here the ground is really hard and dry and what we’re finding through the summers that we’re having now is the ground is getting really really dry. Wanstead Flats historically is known for having quite a lot of peat on it as well which does burn quite quickly and is deep seated but what comes into consideration here as well is human factor, human behaviour, you can have discarded cigarettes, barbecues, also comes into it is potentially glass, broken bottles, reflection from the sun when you’ve got high-intensity sun you can get reflection which can cause fires."
8. Various of some of the 10 fire engines lined up near Wanstead as a small network of hoses pump out water from them to contain the fire – 75 firefighers were sent to the scene
9. Close of LFB badge on fire truck door
10. Wide aerial of a smaller section of grassland that was on fire on 11 August 2025, which involved 8 fire engines and 60 firefighters to put out, causing three hectares of damage ++MUTE++
11. Various wides of grassland that was on fire on 11 August 2025
12. Mid of disposable barbecue on floor for demonstration purposes
13. Close of firefigher holding disposable barbeque
14. Wide pan of large LFB response truck (right) and one of the brigade’s specialist wildfire response vehicles, which are smaller and can be mobile while firefighters fight fires
15. Various of Phil Morton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner at London Fire Brigade (LFB) assembling a shovel from the wildfire response vehicle and putting it in the side compartment
16. Wide of Phil Morton describing features of the wildfire response vehicle
UPSOUND (English) Phil Morton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner at London Fire Brigade (LFB):
"The main technology within the wildfire vehicle, this is the water pump itself, we have a two-stroke engine and a pump with 90mm hose reel hose, there’s 30 metres of hose on this particular vehicle and there’s 475 litres of water stored on the vehicle itself which enables us to make a quick and sustained attack on a fire. The water tank can subsequently be topped up by a fire engine, by a hydrant and we can lift from open water."
17. Mid tilt of water pump at rear of wildfire vehicle
18. Close pan of misting lance, which is pushed into the ground to inject it with water underground
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Phil Morton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner at London Fire Brigade (LFB):
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