The second day of Ealing Climate Week felt more like being on the set of an action film rather than taking a climate action. Fire? Check. Helicopters? Check. A small team of heroes? Check.

After a two-month break from joint sessions with Ealing Greenwayers, three GoodGymers arrived at Pear Tree Park to find charred stumps of a hedge that used to be a border between the newest park in Ealing and Perivale Park sports ground. The fire that broke out in July consumed all green parts of the hedge and the woodchip carpet our team had spread months before. Today's session with Richard and five other Greenwayers was to tidy up the debris and create space for the vegetation to be reborn like a Phoenix.

As the Greenwayers attacked the burnt stems and branches with saws, Sevan, Steph, and Kash were dragging and wheelbarrowing the charred timber to drop it behind the bushes. The team discovered that not all blackened wood was dead inside, so Richard decided not to cut down all the tree stems, hoping that they might revive.

While a decent action film doesn't necessarily need a twist, our story had one: twisting a not-burnt, but rotten tree, a part of a hedge close to the closed park cafe. Three GoodGymers diverted their attention from barrows to the leaning dead tree and yanked it off the ground. It took all three from the GoodGym gang to haul it away, so afterwards they came back to the wheelbarrows overflowing with burnt branches that needed emptying.

The peaceful atmosphere in the park was briefly disturbed by the sight of three tandem rotor helicopters sliding through the blue sky. Where did they go? No one could tell. But everyone knew who had the most sooty nose after the task, and this time it wasn't Kash.