Angela Rayner has visited the burnt-out remains of homes in the West Midlands gutted by a wildfire last week.
The Housing Secretary could be seen walking among the shells of houses at Quarry Park Road, Stourbridge, following the huge blaze which destroyed 19 homes.
Residents evacuated from their homes in the area have been allowed to return to view their properties, an update from Dudley Borough Council released on Sunday said.
Some 13 households whose properties were partially damaged in the blaze have been able to return, chief executive Balvinder Heran said in a residents’ briefing.
The Stourbridge fire is among a host of blazes which have ripped across Britain over the last week.
Other fires have raged across South Wales, in the New Forest, and in the Cairngorms in Scotland.
On Friday evening, millions of people in England and Wales received an alert on their mobile devices warning them of a “very high risk of wildfires nationally”.
Several fire services have since uploaded statements asking members of the public to only call 999 to report a genuine emergency.
Temperatures are set to cool, and rain is set to fall in some areas in coming days, but extreme heat is expected to return after that.
