Claire Taylor, 40, said all her and her family had time to rescue was her grandfather s ashes, some photographs and a small amount of clothes as the fire tore towards their home in Wennington, east London.
Residents of Wennington, east London - a village devastated by wildfire during Tuesday s record-breaking heatwave - have today made an emotional return to their homes.
Dozens of people have been left homeless after a fire ripped through the small village, on the outskirts of east London, yesterday amid the UK s 40C heatwave.