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"No world leader is arriving with climate change at the number one spot in their inbox," Prof Thomas Hale at Oxford university explains.

Late Thursday afternoon, Breanna Hale stood atop the rubble where her childhood home used to stand.

On Wednesday morning, Hale was across town when she got the phone call to evacuate.

With her mother in the hospital, no one was at the house, and Hale rushed back, hoping to grab treasured items.

“I was willing to go into burning flames, and they would not let me up here to get anything,” Hale said.