{"id":32593,"date":"2026-08-15T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/32593\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:21:13","slug":"european-union-mobilizes-aerial-fleet-to-combat-belgiums-historic-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/32593\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Mobilizes Aerial Fleet to Combat Belgium&#8217;s Historic Wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has deployed a fleet of helicopters and water bomber aircraft to assist in fighting a sprawling wildfire in eastern Belgium, according to the bloc&#8217;s crisis commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>The timely reinforcement comes after Belgium&#8217;s plea for help to control what has become its largest blaze in decades within the nation\u2019s biggest nature reserve, the High Fens.<\/p>\n<p>Fueled by consecutive heatwaves and exacerbated by climate change, the fire has consumed 1,600 hectares since its outbreak on Friday, setting a record as the nation&#8217;s largest recorded wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union has deployed a fleet of helicopters and water bomber aircraft to assist in fighting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[713,7,1403,5766,125,14276,17567,17566,17568,17565],"class_list":["post-32593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-aircraft","tag-belgium","tag-climate-change","tag-emergency","tag-european-union","tag-heatwave","tag-helicopters","tag-high-fens","tag-nature-reserve","tag-wildfire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117099736755737901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}