After several weeks without rain and with temperatures reaching 35ºC last month, Wanstead Flats suffered a series of infernos.
“On 10 August, a large blaze burned about one hectare of tinderbox-dry grassland by Centre Road car park. Two days later, a series of fires swept through a swathe of bushes and grass between the Golden Fleece and Alexandra Lake. The London Fire Brigade deserves thanks for a speedy and efficient response… Arson is suspected for at least one of the blazes,” said Tim Harris of the Wren Wildlife Group.
