A bushfire raged on for its fourth day on Wednesday to the east of Manchester in what some locals are calling the biggest fire in living memory.

The fire has been spread largely due to the dryness of the climate in England as Britons sweat through their one of their hottest summers on record.

More than 100 firefighters have been at work to contain the blaze, more than a dozen homes and over 800 hectares of land has been destroyed.

There’s been no consensus on what sparked the blaze.