Just across the border with Groningen, near Ter Apel, a wildfire broke out this afternoon. The Drenthe fire brigade has also been turned out to get the fire under control.
The fire is raging in a nature reserve near the former flow fields. near the German border. The fire brigade has scaled up to a very large fire, because there are several fires. Several firefighting teams from the area are assisting with the fire.
The area where the fire is raging is quite inaccessible, says a spokesman RTV North. “The vehicles are trying to get to the fire. It is, as it now seems, still a bit uncontrollable. It seems to be heading towards the border with Germany.”
Shortly after 7 p.m., the fire service announced that the fire was not spreading. “But because the fire is also in the ground, we are still careful with giving the signal fire master,” says the spokesperson. The specialist team from Overijssel has come over to fight underground fires.