Volunteers kept the community centre open 24 hours a day from the Saturday evening of the fire until the following Thursday to provide whatever service they could.
Months of record-breaking heat and dry conditions had sparked a wave of wildfires across the UK through spring and summer.
Conversation turned to kit available to crews working in unbearable heat, proactive land management and whether social media firms could do more to discourage people from setting fires.
The hillside, just metres from the community centre where he met those who fought the blaze, was burnt black.
With climate change, he warned, it could well be a sign of what is to come.
He recalled flying water bowsers in the Falklands putting out range fires.
He asked how the community and voluntary sector could work together to support agencies, and whether volunteers should be used more in future.
He told volunteers, fire crews and military personnel that 2026 was the first summer he had felt worried about the scale of the fires.
It feels like this is something we are going to have to live with as a country or as a world now every summer, the prince said. We need to start taking wildfires as seriously as the continent has done, he said, raising a lack of firefighting aircraft.