James Cook
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first heard Mar 2025
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The third element of firefighting in a massive wildfire is structure protection.
And they'll have a team for it, sometimes a team for each house.
It's really intensive and it's really difficult and very dangerous.
And I say, you're looking at this street, what do you do?
He said, we will ignore that house that's allowed its greenery to grow up to the door.
It will burn.
because they've taken a choice not to be serious about it.
And it wasn't that I'm punishing for it.
It was like, I have to be realistic about what I can save, and we will not be saving that house.
So, I mean, that's the level you're talking about, of the seriousness of why there is individual responsibility here as well.
I mean, we're not quite at this stage, thank goodness, yet.
But, I mean, goodness knows, you look at what's happening with all these wildfires at the moment, and you wonder if this is coming for
my point
it up against the cost of not doing it as well.
You have to consider that.
What would be the cost to the economy of not doing it?
What's the cost if we're struggling to ensure
Well,
Yeah, I was trying to find the statistic, Adam, a second ago.
Some 966 wildfires the National Fire Chiefs Council in England and Wales say they've responded to this year.
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