Little boy rescued from rubble after gas explosion in grill room
On Saturday, emergency services managed to save a 5-year-old boy named Kenan from under the rubble of a collapsed grill ...
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Groningen opens second emergency housing location for incoming Internationals
A second emergency housing for international students at the Peizerweg in Groningen is opened. All of the 120 furnished rooms ...
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Accident and emergency departments in Stadskanaal, Hoogeveen to close in 2020
Starting in early 2020, the accident and emergency departments at the hospitals in Hoogeveen and Stadskanaal will be closing – ...
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Emergency number back in service, but what went wrong?
Between 4 p.m. and around 9 p.m. on Monday, the Dutch emergency number 112 was unavailable due to a nationwide ...
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What is that scary siren sound on the first Monday of the month?
If you hear air raid sirens going off around the beginning of the month, don’t be alarmed: the sirens are ...
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MSC Zoe aftermath scaled up to emergency level four
The ongoing clean-up and salvage operations in the Wadden region have been scaled up to emergency level four, and Leeuwarden ...
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Frisian company helping Thai cave rescue
Van Heck Group, a pump service company from the Frisian town of Noordwolde, is contributing to the rescue operations at ...
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Concerns about Frisian fire crew response times
The Leeuwarder Courant reports that planned changes to fire departments across Friesland include getting rid of some emergency vehicles in ...
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