East London residents have opened up about their devastation after fires ripped through parkland into neighbouring residential streets - destroying nine homes and 25 cars.
Fire crews on Wednesday were still dampening down charred grassland and gardens near Bean Park in Dagenham, where houses and cars were reduced to burnt out shells.
Some 135 residents were evacuated during the blaze, which broke out at lunch time on Tuesday amid an unprecedented heatwave across the UK.
