Dartmoor: A wildfire has destroyed about 12,500 acres (50.6 square kilometers) of moorland on Dartmoor in south-west England. Emergency services received multiple calls alerting them to the blaze on Sunday, and firefighters tackled it for almost 24 hours until it was extinguished on Monday. People were asked to avoid the Merrivale and Okehampton areas while the incident was ongoing, with Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service saying the fire may behave "unpredictably" with the changing weather.
According to Emirates News Agency, the wildfire coincides with the United Kingdom experiencing the warmest start to May on record. A temperature of 29.3 degrees Celsius was registered on Thursday afternoon in south-west London.