Amid growing calls for a dedicated national wildfire service in Britain, experts are warning that specialist aircraft and trained firefighters alone will not be enough to address the country's worsening wildfire risk. Increasing periods of prolonged heat and drought are making fires more frequent across grasslands, heathlands, moorlands and peatlands, and researchers argue the UK must pair any emergency response capability with community-based prevention programmes similar to those used in Australia, Canada, Portugal and the United States. Proposals include local "wildfire resilience partnerships" bringing together emergency services, land managers, schools and faith groups, as well as public fire-risk monitoring systems modelled on Taiwan's real-time Fire Weather Index displays, with advocates stressing that empowering communities to detect and prevent fires early is likely to be more cost-effective than relying on emergency responses alone.