Rayner: Wildfire challenges are ‘becoming more frequent’

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Housing Secretary Angela Rayner says the government have introduced “£100 million more” for equipment and have got “specialist fire crews that look at wildfires” during a visit to West Midlands Fire Service HQ. She adds: “We're seeing a pattern here with the wildfires. We're seeing a pattern with climate… it's clear that these challenges are becoming more frequent." Report by Patelr. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We're seeing a pattern here with the wildfires, we're seeing a pattern with climate.

00:04We have introduced £100 million more equipment and we've got specialist fire crews now that look

00:09at wildfires and they have been pushed by what's happened the unprecedented way in which we've

00:14had wildfires across the England and Wales over this period. But what we are doing is we'll be

00:20making sure that we come together and we design a fire service that is able to respond to the

00:27challenges that we face but it's clear that these challenges are becoming more frequent.

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