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| Photo: Manchester Fire and Rescue Service |
Drought led to an outbreak of grass fires from Manchester to London during the summer of 2018.
In London, more than 200 firefighters battled a peat fire on Wanstead Flats, one of the largest ever in fire brigade history, on July 15, 2018.
``Peat fires are complex because they burn underground and travel before reappearing above the surface somewhere different,'' Allen Perez, deputy commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, said.
