Overview
- The Koffiebakkers lunchroom in Goirle caught fire in the early hours of Friday, causing heavy damage to the business and forcing dozens of nearby apartments to be evacuated.
- Police have classified the Goirle fire as deliberate, say forensic teams and detectives are investigating, and have appealed to those on the images to come forward before July 3.
- About fifty evacuees were temporarily housed at the town hall and allowed to return by 05:00 after firefighters—who reported arriving within two minutes—brought the blaze under control.
- A separate attic fire in Schiedam in the mid-afternoon is under control after crews evacuated nearby homes as a precaution and the occupants escaped; initial reports say leaves in a gutter likely ignited.
- In an unrelated traffic incident overnight in Rotterdam-Crooswijk a scooter collided with a commercial van, the rider was taken to hospital and the van suffered heavy front-end damage as police investigate whether the van overlooked the scooter.