Overview

• Police confirmed one fatality in the Slotermeer apartment complex and about 90 to 100 residents remain displaced, with a firefighter taken to hospital and reported in stable condition.
• The incident was escalated to a ‘zeer grote brand’ with Grip-1 coordination, drawing mutual-aid crews, ladder rescues from balconies, and a drone to assess multiple fire seats.
• The cause in Amsterdam remains unknown; a second fire started when a resident fleeing the alarm left a pan on the stove, compounding smoke and suppression challenges.
• In Gouda, 27 apartments were evacuated after a blaze in a care complex that followed a loud bang suspected to be a battery explosion, with five residents sent to hospital and second-floor tenants still unable to return.
• Elsewhere, police are probing two unusual fires at vacant buildings by the Bleiswijk Spiegeldijk, responders contained oil leakage from a burned boat in Sappemeer, and an e-step on charge sparked a house fire in Apeldoorn with a ladder rescue of a man and a dog.