Volunteer Rick Brouwer says that the youngest youth had just started training the fire broke out around 5 p.m. “Of course they had to leave as quickly as possible, because the smoke came right over the field.”
Club chairman Jeroen Jansen quickly decided to tell members who would train later in the evening that they did not have to come. “Rightly, you just can’t get on it and the fire brigade and police are busy. We have provided them with coffee,” he says.
When an NL Alert was issued due to the thick smoke, Rick and two other volunteers sat in the clubhouse with the windows closed. “We were safe and it was fun,” he says. There were some concerns about soot deposits on the fields, but these have now been approved for the weekend.
Worries about fires
The football club has not suffered any damage, but volunteers are afraid of new fires on the industrial estate. This is the third time in a year and a half and the second fire at this car scrapyard. Also local residents who spoke to media partner Streekomroep West-Frieslandare concerned.
The car scrapyard was in the news more often. The FIOD achieved this in 2024 countless expensive sports cars gone.
