The fire at the military training ground in Oirschot is still not under control on Thursday evening. The Brabants Dagblad writes that the fire brigade in Oirschot expects to be extinguishing the fire until midnight. Around 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the Brabant South East Safety Region told the ANP news agency that the fire brigade expected to get the fire on the Oirschotse Heide under control sometime “in the coming hours”. Brabant Alert reports only that the fire is now “spreading less rapidly” than before.
In Weert, North Limburg, the fire that raged at a military training ground on Thursday has now been brought under control, the Limburg North Safety Region reported to the ANP news agency. “The flames have almost extinguished,” the region said. In the coming hours, the fire brigade will continue to extinguish the fire in the area of eighty hectares (about 0.8 square kilometers).
The military training area in ‘t Harde, Gelderland, will also continue to be extinguished on Thursday evening, because there are still “several hotspots (small fire sources) present”, reported the North and East Gelderland Safety Region in the afternoon. Extinguishing again prevents the fire from spreading again.
The wildfires in Noordwijk in South Holland and Kessel in Limburg were under control on Thursday evening. In the Amsterdam water supply dunes, a drone is used to search for the last ‘hotspots’ to extinguish. writes Hollands Midden Safety Region. The Kessel fire is now under control – “the fire brigade is still busy extinguishing it for some time”, thus Limburg North Safety Region.
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