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 ...
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 – ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...