Fire-damaged house in Highfield Road

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Fire-damaged house in Highfield Road

Image: © Chris Reynolds Taken: 10 Sep 2015

This fire started in the roof and fortunately no one was hurt. http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/more-news/infamous-glis-glis-is-blamed-for-house-blaze-1-6943894 It is believed that the fire was caused by Glis glis (the edible dormouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_dormouse ) chewing its way through a cable.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.793786
Longitude
-0.67539