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Here is today's Northern Agenda: By ROB PARSONS - July 20 2022 'Today was a game changer', reflected West Yorkshire Fire Service's deputy chief fire officer Dave Walton after returning home from a shift that had tested him and other Northern colleagues to the limit.
As temperatures climbed above 40C for the first time ever in the UK yesterday, giving rise to tinder-dry conditions, major fire incidents were declared in South Yorkshire and North Yorkshire as well as Lincolnshire, London and elsewhere.
In South Yorkshire, a row of houses in the Moorland Avenue area of Barnsley was consumed by flames, with crews continuing to battle fires elsewhere in the area.
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