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New Year Fires and Unrest Strain Emergency Services Across Groningen and Rijnmond

Emergency services reported extreme 112 demand after midnight, prompting an NL-Alert.

Overview

  • A house fire on Lindelaan in Nieuwe Pekela escalated to a large incident, spread to adjacent homes considered lost, and caused no injuries as residents got out safely.
  • Six cars burned in a parking garage on Pluvierhof in Hellevoetsluis, leading to a large-scale response and brief evacuations of the apartments above.
  • A fast apartment blaze in Rotterdam-Ommoord left the home uninhabitable with a cat and dog dead, with the cause reported as likely linked to fireworks on a balcony.
  • Vlaardingen’s Westwijk saw a fight, smashed supermarket windows, a short-lived store fire, a vandalized bus shelter, and a burned van, with police on scene and no arrests reported.
  • Police arrested a suspect after a stabbing near Julianastraat in Stadskanaal, and elsewhere deployed the Mobile Unit in places such as Hoogkerk to secure firefighters under heavy fireworks.