France and Germany send firefighters to help battle woodland blazes in Netherlands

Published on 01/05/2026 - 21:11 GMT+2

France and Germany sent firefighting units to the Netherlands connected Friday to assistance conflict woodland blazes flaring successful respective areas.

Many of the fires, which broke retired connected Wednesday and Thursday, were raging successful onshore utilized for subject training, including an artillery range, successful the south.

Stretched Dutch authorities requested assistance facing the exigency done the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, with France and Germany responding.

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said successful a station connected X that Paris had despatched 41 civilian information unit and 10 vehicles.

A full of 67 firefighters, 21 vehicles and 3 trailers were sent by the Bonn occurrence work successful Germany.

A Dutch subject spokesman, Major Mike Hofman, confirmed connected Friday that service "training grounds were successful usage astatine the clip the fires broke out."

He said an probe was nether mode "examining whether determination is simply a transportation betwixt the subject operations and the root of the fires".

The caput of the Dutch equipped forces said connected Thursday that other precautions were being taken connected terrain utilized for drills due to the fact that of a drought presently parching the country.

He added, however, that the subject exercises being conducted would not beryllium suspended.