FIRE APPROACHES NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, HUNDREDS EVACUATED

LONDON, JULY 30 /SRNA/ - A major incident has been declared in Suffolk due to a wildfire that has approached to just under five kilometers from the "Sizewell B" nuclear power plant, writes The Telegraph.

The fire broke out yesterday around 5:30 PM near Coastguard Cottages on a property owned by the National Trust on the Suffolk coast and quickly spread to the southwest.

During the night, hundreds of people were evacuated from the Cliff House Holiday Park tourist resort, and 90 firefighters are battling the blaze in the Dunwich Heath area.

The site of the fire is about 4.8 kilometers away from the "Sizewell B" nuclear power plant, which produces three percent of the total electricity in Great Britain.

The Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service stated that the fire does not pose a direct threat to the facility, which has its own safety infrastructure for fire protection, but that the situation is volatile and unpredictable.

Fire services estimate that extinguishing the fire will take at least two more days.

Efforts to extinguish the fire are being hampered by high air temperatures and wind.

Experts have previously warned that Great Britain could face devastating wildfires.

These warnings are linked to the fourth heatwave that has engulfed the country following a period of record-high air temperatures.