Emergency services across South Yorkshire have declared a major incident on Tuesday afternoon (July 19) as the heatwave stretched services.
Humberside Fire and Rescue also declared a major incident at 5.24pm due to the high volume of 999 calls its crews and control room were responding to.
"If you smell smoke please keep windows and doors closed. Please only call 999 if you have a genuine emergency," the team said.Fire and Rescue did not officially declare a major incident, they did say they were having a very busy day. "Our control team are still receiving a very high number of calls as we deal with several weather incidents across West Yorkshire Please only dial 999 in an emergency," they said.
This comes after a record-breaking day weather-wise, where the UK saw the temperature rise above 40C for the first time, and wildfires broke out around the country.
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