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Lives in a Landscape: Series 8

Lives in a Landscape: Series 8: Episode 5

Episode 5

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In May, Berkshire suffered its biggest ever forest fire. Alan Dein meets the evacuees.

Last month, Berkshire suffered its biggest ever forest fire. Alan Dein returns to the woods with the evacuees living in a row of wooden houses adjacent to the forest.

In May, major forest fires swept through a corner of Berkshire. 12 fire services were engaged in tackling the blaze which lasted a week and is estimated to have caused £100,000 of damage to woodland. On the edge of a section of the forest known as Crowthorne Wood a small row of wooden houses narrowly avoided being destroyed by the fire which reached the end of the road. The residents of these one-time foresters' houses were evacuated whilst firefighters tried to regain control. Alan Dein meets this small neighbourhood whose existence was suddenly thrown into peril as the fire moved quickly towards it. He also returns to the much loved forest with some of the residents, now a charred remnant of what it used to be.

Producer: Neil McCarthy.

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