The Taylor family
(Picture: .)The scale of the damage caused by the record-breaking heatwave emerged on Wednesday as Sadiq Khan said the London Fire Brigade had seen its busiest day since the Second World War.
The Mayor said 41 properties had been destroyed and 16 firefighters injured, including two who required hospital treatment, as wildfires were sparked across the “tinder-dry” capital in temperatures rising to 40C-plus.
