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As residents, nature wardens and experts consider the damage to the heathland and how to restore it, the climate crisis is foremost in their minds A local community pulling together, emergency services saving homes and caravan parks from catastrophe, and farmers and nature reserve wardens working to rapidly create fire breaks to halt a marauding fireball 40 metres high – there was plenty to praise the week after a swathe of east Suffolk burned.
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