Overview
- Officers in Honselersdijk confiscated about 130 kilograms of illegal fireworks from a van parked at a home, with the resident told to account for the risks and possession.
- More than 150 kilograms of prohibited fireworks were found and seized in a house on Hegenbos after hours of police investigation, with a specialist firm removing the cache.
- Fire, police and ambulance services report elevated readiness for the year’s busiest night, noting that roughly 7 percent of annual incidents occur in a few hours around midnight.
- Delft’s mayor extended a security risk designation through 2 January, enabling preventive searches in areas hit by illegal fireworks and arson, including burned vehicles and scooters.
- Gelderland outlined strict local rules with total consumer-fireworks bans in Apeldoorn, Arnhem, Heumen, Nijmegen and Zutphen, as overnight vehicle fires and a multi-injury water crash underscore safety concerns.