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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Shaun Wilson

THE TRUTH ABOUT: London ambulance service has busiest ever day in record 36c heatwave | History Defined

London Ambulance Service experienced its busiest ever day on Friday as the capital buckled under the third day of a red-alert heatwave that has smashed record temperatures in June.

The control room was inundated with 8,869 emergency calls and called out to no fewer than 688 life-threatening incidents, as members pf the public suffered heart attacks and breathing troubles

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