Aerial footage showed houses and gardens engulfed in flames in Kent and Essex around London's suburbs on Tuesday, the same day Britain recorded a record-high temperature of 40 C.
The London Fire Brigade said it had deployed dozens of firetrucks to several blazes in and around the city, including 30 to a grass fire in east London.
The heat wave gripping Europe is expected to last until next week and intensified, scorching fields, damaging runways and forcing train tracks to buckle under the pressure.
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