Response to the Drenthe Safety Region
“Five years ago, after the last ceremony, it was agreed that commemoration becomes memory. We want to give everyone the space to reflect on this disaster in their own way. The event was traumatic, and how you can Processing a trauma, that is different for everyone. And we want to respect that. Perhaps in ten years time there will be a need to reflect on it together again. “
According to the Drenthe Safety Region, a major commemoration is held in Arnhem every year on the third Saturday of June at the national fire service monument. Many firefighters from Drenthe also go there. “Then we reflect on the death of colleagues in the exercise of their profession. So then we also commemorate the colleagues who died in De Punt.”
The monument in Arnhem contains all the names of killed firefighters, except for Egbert Ubels from Eelde. The family didn’t want that.