The International FireTraining Centre in darlington in the north of england. This is where brave firefighters come from around the world to learn the latest techniques in fighting all kinds of blazes. They can simulate a huge variety of fire scenarios here, oil rigs, industrialfires. That is an overturned fuel tanker, and they can simulate any size of aircraft from the smallest to the largest. That is an airbus a380 and this is a boeing 747. And it is notjust about gearing up and grabbing the hose. Every fire is different. And each needs to be treated intelligently to make sure you and the people you are trying to save have the best chance of survival. Wow my goodness. They are using the water as a protective shield. So it keeps the two fires apart, using the water. Keeping the left hand one at bay and then extinguishing the right one before we deal with the left. The centre tries to make each scenario as realistic as possible, not just the fire, but the treatment of the casualties as well. It is fascinating to see the Science Behind firefighting. For example, in a kerosene fuel fire, water will not put it out. This cone of water controls the blaze so another firefighter can come in with a powder extinguisher. That is what finally tames the flames. And once theyre gone, does that mean the job is done . Well, that is where this thermal imaging camera comes in to see what our eyes cannot. So, once it looks like the fire is out, you still have to cover the area in waterjust in case there are some hot spots. You can see here the vent on the top of this engine is still white hot according to this thermal imaging camera. And there are many other ways to detect and deal with fires. Lara has been looking at some of them. For the past two years, half of the uks fire brigades have been deploying these drones. They focus on the safety of firefighters and their onboard hd and thermal imaging cameras can provide much greater visibility, which means a better understanding of a fire and the way that it is spreading. Using a drone, we can get pretty much an instant overview of the whole fire in less than five minutes and start moving our machines and our firefighters around just like chess pieces, really, all controlled by drone footage. It also brings us a massive benefit as we can see fires as they are developing. The team here have also use them for rescues and searching for missing people in quarries or in water. The hd camera is able to clearly zoom in on a face up to half a mile away. But of course when it comes to the spread of fires, what has happened recently in california is at the forefront of our mind. The university of westminster is researching a system that combines sensors on the ground and those in a drone. The aim a solution for wildfires. These solar powered prototype sensors are tracking carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, oxygen, humidity, temperature, gps and altitude. The aim is to combine them into one miniaturised Cost Effective version, which could be deployed en masse in areas susceptible to wildfires, providing immediate feedback. If there is something, they will alert all their neighbours also, form in to a network, alert, take measurements, convey to the master node, which then conveys it further up to the server, which then alerts the drones that come up to get a visual. The plane comes with all the information that it has got from the drones, from the ground sensors and it knows what the windspeed is, what wind direction is, what the temperature variations are. It comes over the fire. It knows where the fire will be when the plane rendezvous with that. Then it makes a list from the air and then the heavens open as they hit the target where the fire is, and you can fight fires day and night, 2a hours a day with no visibility. Meanwhile, this is the stinger. It can pierce through metal and pretty much any roof, dramatically blasting foam or water into the heart of a blaze. The quantity and force of that water is pretty incredible. This pumps 1,000 litres a minute with an even more powerfuljet to the side, capable of 4. 5 times that. It also has an on board thermal imaging camera to assist with that precision. Blackburn is currently the only uk fire Service Using this kit, though. Im told it costs around £600,000. But maybe as costs come down and all of this technology evolves, this next generation of firefighting will become the norm. Iamat leicestershire fire and rescue, the First Service in the country to invest in Virtual Reality. Their hope is that money will be saved by replacing some of the expensive traditional training techniques with vr alternatives. Ive seen the demo and the fire looks quite intense, so i dont think its going to be what im used to when it comes to Virtual Reality, which isjust having a nice time lets see. All the scenes in the training are scanned from the real world. For instance, this arson hot spot in leicester is a good reference for investigators looking for clues. Its the inside of a destroyed smoke alarm. Ijust need to say, the environment is like im standing on ash. It feels very real. Teleportation. Oh, my gosh. 0k, there is a body down there. If you enjoy training, you are going to get more out of it. Its already been proven by a study in the United States that if you train in a Virtual Reality environment, the retention rate is 75 . Most of my talks i do on road safety are powerpoint. Rentention rate is 5 . So you can see why were looking at this because the training is going to be enhanced so much. If you want to skip 10 seconds forward, you can do it on a controller and skip forward, so you can fast forward the fire again. You remember from the scene you saw a minute ago, that tv monitor was completely melted. And you can see how it physically affects things that are not even burning yet. Yes, and idea is as it stops, we didnt show the people putting out the fire, but you get the ability straightaway to dive back in the scene and now youre in that same burn scene. Yeah, seeing the impact of that fire is pretty remarkable. It moves quickly. Part of the reason this experience feels so intense is the realism behind it. For leicestershire fire and rescue, this was important, that they move away from gamification and into real life. Theyve been working with a Company Called river to make this happen. The scenes are created using photogrammetry, both cameras and lasers photographing real life 360 degree scenarios up to thousands of times. Weve seen how Fire Services are using Virtual Reality, but what about other First Responders . Here at the defence science and technology laboratory, they are hard at work on how police might use Virtual Reality in theirtraining. Number 7, ferguson house. Caller report sounds a violent disturbance. Wow, i can see some feet already. So, i dont think people would expect to put the police and Virtual Reality together. Why is it so important that the police are interacting with technology in this way . You can replicate one off events, so a one off event which could be a dangerous or hazardous environment, you can actually recreate as a one off and people would never, ever get the opportunity to rehearse that, but in vr, we can, so we can give them that vehicle, give them that opportunity to do a one off scenario and do it safely. Oh, my gosh. 0k. Im going to see if this woman is alive. Shes obviously taken some pills. There is a heartbeat here. I can definitely see already how it could be used to in a way that a lot of games are, really, to open up your mind to possibilities around crime, why people may have committed criminal activities, those kind of questions are definitely there already. Yeah, that was more enjoyable than the fire one, i think. Which perhaps shouldnt be my takeaway, like, i could go back into that world, whereas the fire scene, ijust wanted to get out. And thats it for the short cut of click from the International FireTraining Centre. The full length version comes highly recommended, trust me, and it is waiting for you on iplayer right now. Were going to put a load more footage and photos from this place up on social media. Dont forget, we live on facebook and twitter at bbcclick. But now, thanks for watching and we will see you soon. Hello. Well, apart from scotland the rest of the country is enjoying a Bank Holiday Weekend this weekend and its going to be a record brea ker already. Temperatures have been broken for the Bank Holiday Weekend. Yesterday we saw 33. 3 celsius at heathrow in london. And for many of us today, the Bank Holiday Monday could promise to bejust as hot or even hotter. And again we could break some records, warm air coming up for the near continent, cooler air looms though over the north atlantic. Behind this cold front which has some rain on it itll gradually work its way eastwards across the country introducing the cooler air over the next few days and that will introduce rain and some thunderstorms. Temperatures returning close to the seasonal norm by the end of the week. In the short term though its still very hot across central and eastern parts of the country. Bit more cloud and mist across western areas, perhaps a few showers just pushing into cornwall and devon through the day. And this weather front will be getting ever closer to western scotland and the western side of northern ireland, so breezy cloudier conditions here, not as hot across the central belt of scotland today but another hot one in the south east. 32 to 33 degrees maybe 3a degrees locally in the south east. As we head through tonight it looks like those showers and thunderstorms become a bit more widespread, pushing in across southwest england into wales and also that weather front bringing some wet weather to western scotland into northern ireland. But elsewhere its going to be a dry and clear one very muggy once again across the south east. Tuesday again is another hot day across eastern areas. But change takes place out west with more cloud, outbreaks of rain and scattering of showers pushing into northern outbreaks of rain and scattering parts of too, i imagine some could be quite heavy. Quite a temperature difference, the high teens across the far north west, the high 20s for england and wales, but in the south east again, the low 30s is quite possible. Through tuesday night, it turns much more unsettled across northern and western areas, a scattering of showers, longer spells of rain and some thunderstorms as we start to see it moving slowly eastwards. Again dry and muggy. Wednesday, you can see these areas of low pressure ganging up, arriving towards the end of the week to bring spells of wet and windy weather, but you can see the temperature slowly dropping as the week goes on. This is bbc news im carrie gracie. The headlines at two the International Response to the devastating amazon fires the g7 pledges £16 million to help tackle the crisis. As the fires continue to spread brazil steps up its Emergency Response and deploys its military, after concern that not enough was being done. The largest earthquake thought to be caused by a fracking site in the uk has been felt in lancashire. A 14 year old boy has been arrested in connection with a fire overnight at a high school in dunfermline. The Prime Minister tells the bbc to cough up and pay for tv licences for all over 755 notjust those on low incomes. Today is the hottest late august Bank Holiday Monday on record with temperatures set to continue rising across the uk