Lives 'will be lost' unless UK does more to combat wildfires, committee chairwoman says

"I fear that lives will be lost. We need to be doing much more education and preparation."

— Baroness Brown , Activist

"We saw the complete destruction of the house. There was no roof, no floorboards. Nothing. No-one should have this experience."

— Sandy Shiralkar , Other

"Every loss is painful, but losing a house has got a different dimension. Coming back to normality is going to take a long time."

— Uttam Shiralkar , Other

"We had firefighters from London being mobilised to Yorkshire, firefighters from Merseyside being mobilised to Dorset."

— Steve Wright , Activist

"The money has to be there, otherwise we'll be going into 2027 and 2028 with a likely occurrence that we'll see what we've seen ..."

— Phil Garrigan , Other