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An isolated incident, and you had other really major fires in the local area and right across london, sojust how did you cope as a fire service? so, that's right, it's actually been stated as the worst day for london fire brigade since world war two, our busiest time. if you look at the stats from last year, the first two weeks of august, we attended between a0 and 50 grass fires. to this year, where we attended, the first two weeks in august, we attended between 150 and 200 grass fires. so, it's a really big jump from one year to the next. and you've been working a lot with members of the pub...

The devastation and one of the things that, actually, i was very shocked about is, as you can see from here, how close we was to losing the fire station. it's come within about two foot of the diesel tank, the station itself. so, we're actually standing next to 5,000 litres of diesel just here and you can see where the flames got really, really close, licking up the side of the diesel storage, so it could have been an awful lot worse. yeah, it's due to the hard work of the crews that attended the fire on that day. yeah, the crews must have been seriously stretched on that day because, of cours...

So just how did you cope as a fire service? so, that's right, it's actually been stated as the worst day for london fire brigade since world war two, our busiest time. if you look at the stats from last year, the first two weeks of august, we attended between a0 and 50 grass fires. to this year, where we attended, the first two weeks in august, we attended between 150 and 200 grass fires. so, it's a really big jump from one year to the next. and you've been working a lot with members of the public here in the community as well, trying to push the fire safety message since the fire injuly, so w...

For london fire brigade since world war two, our busiest time. if you look at the stats from last year, the first two weeks of august, we attended between a0 and 50 grass fires. to this year, where we attended, the first two weeks in august, we attended between 150 and 200 grass fires. so, it's a really big jump from one year to the next. and you've been working a lot with members of the public here in the community as well, trying to push the fire safety message since the fire injuly, so what sort of advice are you giving people? fire safety advice, notjust in the home but in their gardens as...

The station itself. so, we're actually standing next to 5,000 litres of dieseljust here. and you can see where the flames got really, really close, licking up the side of the diesel storage. so it could have been an awful lot worse. yeah, it's due to the hard work of the crews that attended the fire on that day. yeah, the crews must have been seriously stretched on that day because, of course, this wasn't an isolated incident, and you had other really major fires in the local area and right across london, so just how did you cope as a fire service? so, that's right, it's actually been stated a...