Large heath fire on Belgian military training area Camp Beverlo, near the border with the Netherlands

A large heath fire has been raging in the largest military training area in Flanders, Camp Beverlo, since Friday afternoon. report Belgian media. The fire is not yet under control and its cause is still unknown. The fire broke out on the Staleikerheide, a dry heathland area on the military domain in the Belgian province of Limburg. The area belongs to Natura 2000 and is a protected area where rare animals such as the moor frog and the natterjack toad occur.

The municipality of Leopoldsburg announced Tuesday a preventive code orange for fire hazard. Dry winds and low humidity were cited as the cause, factors underlying “a very fire-dangerous period.” Last year in May the same area was hit by a heath fire, at which time about 20,000 square meters of forest and heathland burned.

Belgian firefighters helped on Thursday with the fire at the Weerterheide in Limburg, the Netherlands, in which an area of ​​about 500,000 square meters was on fire.

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