Clinic and investigation is under way into the cause of a fire at a block of student flats in bolton. Witnesses say the blaze spread quickly to the upper floors, prompting concerns about the cladding on the block. Two people we re cladding on the block. Two people were injured. These videos posted on social media show an intense fire which spread rapidly, sending chunks of burning cladding and sparks to the ground. At first, some of the students ignored the alarms. There was this girl who came running and she banged on the doors of the people on my floor, and she just started screaming, saying that theres a fire, get out of here right now. When we were running down the stairs, it was getting higher and higher and catching really quickly. The cladding on this building is not the same as that which has been blamed for exacerbating the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, which killed 72 people, and the students living here in the cube have been reassured it was safe. But the videos posted on
More than 100 people have had to be rescued by Emergency Services as pa rt rescued by Emergency Services as part of the midlands were hit by more flooding and drivers were caught out by rapidly rising water. There are more than 100 flood warnings in place and parts of england under. 0ur Midlands Correspondent reports from evesham in was to show where the river even burst its banks. So would you like us to bring you out of the property, because of the water . You would like to be evacuated . Rescue boats have been launched throughout the day in evesham, as water levels on the avon continue to rise. Its been quite a protracted incident for us. Theres been a number of incidents across the county, and this is just one of many that our crews are dealing with currently. The river has reached its highest level since 2007, with only one road through evesham left open. This is one of the main routes through evesham, but half a mile is currently submerged beneath the floodwater. Its meant that m
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it just exploded. like, a whole mountainjust exploded in five seconds. i ve never seen anything like it. australians know it as black summer . the months in late 2019 and early 2020, when the country saw its most intense bushfire season on record. up to 3 billion animals were killed or displaced and huge swathes of their habitat were burnt. i m nick lazaredes, and 18 months on, i ve been travelling australia to discover how its wildlife is faring now. there s a complete removal of resources that wildlife needs. whether they eat leaves,