{"id":247424,"date":"2025-11-06T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247424\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:04:37","slug":"londons-emergency-services-spend-11m-on-wildfires-and-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/247424\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s emergency services spend \u00a311m on wildfires and floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flooding has also increasingly affected the capital, with the Greater London Authority (GLA) branding flash flooding as the main environmental risk to residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City Hall analysis found that floods could affect almost half of London&#8217;s hospitals and a fifth of schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Assistant Commissioner for LFB&#8217;s operational resilience and control, Pat Goulbourne, said: &#8220;We know that climate change is having an impact on London&#8217;s weather, including increasing the risk of wildfires and flash flooding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He called for landowners to take preventative steps such as the creation of fire breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;It is also important that there is continued investment to ensure we have the necessary tools available to address the challenges that lie ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, is attending the C40 World Mayors Summit this week, an event showcasing how cities are tackling the climate crisis &#8211; held ahead of Cop30 being staged by Brazil in the Amazonian city of Belem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flooding has also increasingly affected the capital, with the Greater London Authority (GLA) branding flash flooding as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-247424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}