A firefighter works to extinguish a wildfire near Budel, on May 1, 2026 a day after it broke out at a military training ground where a military exercise was taking place. (Photo by ROB ENGELAAR \/ ANP \/ AFP)<\/p>\n
Amsterdam: France said Friday it has sent firefighting units to the Netherlands to help battle woodland blazes flaring in several areas.<\/p>\n
Many of the fires, which sparked on Wednesday and Thursday, were raging in land used for military training, including an artillery range, in the south.<\/p>\n
Stretched Dutch authorities requested help facing the emergency through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, with France and Germany responding.<\/p>\n
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on X that Paris had despatched 41 civil security personnel and 10 vehicles<\/p>\n
A Dutch military spokesman, Major Mike Hofman, on Friday confirmed to AFP that army “training grounds were in use at the time the fires broke out”.<\/p>\n
He said an investigation was under way “examining whether there is a connection between the military operations and the origin of the fires”.<\/p>\n
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
He added, however, that the military exercises being conducted would not be suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A firefighter works to extinguish a wildfire near Budel, on May 1, 2026 a day after it broke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,5021,5020],"class_list":{"0":"post-7675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-netherlands","8":"tag-netherlands","9":"tag-qatar","10":"tag-the-peninsula"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}