{"id":9357,"date":"2026-05-01T20:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/9357\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:12:15","slug":"france-and-germany-send-firefighters-to-help-battle-woodland-blazes-in-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/9357\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Germany send firefighters to help battle woodland blazes in Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France and Germany sent firefighting units to the Netherlands on Friday to help battle woodland blazes flaring in several areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Many of the fires, which broke out on Wednesday and Thursday, were raging in land used for military training, including an artillery range, in the south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stretched Dutch authorities requested help facing the emergency through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, with France and Germany responding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">French Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said in a post on X that Paris had despatched 41 civil security personnel and 10 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A total of 67 firefighters, 21 vehicles and three trailers were sent by the Bonn fire service in Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Dutch military spokesman, Major Mike Hofman, confirmed on Friday that army &#8220;training grounds were in use at the time the fires broke out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said an investigation was under way &#8220;examining whether there is a connection between the military operations and the origin of the fires&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The head of the Dutch armed forces said on Thursday that extra precautions were being taken on terrain used for drills because of a drought currently parching the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added, however, that the military exercises being conducted would not be suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France and Germany sent firefighting units to the Netherlands on Friday to help battle woodland blazes flaring in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8937,8938,8935,5,8939,8936],"class_list":{"0":"post-9357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu-civil-protection-mechanism","9":"tag-firefighting-units","10":"tag-france-and-germany","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-military-spokesman","13":"tag-military-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}