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Video shows French firefighters driving through an inferno in the southwest of the country.12:56:54There are"tried and tested" plans to increase NHS staff in areas experiencing extreme heat, the prime minister's official spokesman has said."There have already been some coordination meetings at official level across government," he went on.
Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU teaching union, said the weather could make them"potentially dangerous". "It is potentially dangerous to take part in vigorous physical activity in extreme heat, with the risk of heat exhaustion and even heat stroke." "Given that there is no specific upper limit on school temperatures, widespread closures would seem unlikely at this stage," Mr Bowen said.
He added that there are a number of contingency measures which have already been enacted or are ready to be enacted.There is a 40% chance that the record for the highest minimum temperature could be broken next week, the Met Office has said.The record low temperature in England was set back on 3 August 1990, when it never got below 23.9C .
"What makes our job a little more difficult is the wind effect - the direction and intensity of which are unpredictable," he said early on Thursday.
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