Overview
- The city says the cordoned area will stay closed until at least 16:00 with access restricted to residents and businesses, and an information point opens at noon at the city office.
- Fire crews report multiple collapses and widespread damage, identify three buildings as severely affected, and continue shoring and debris searches.
- Four people were injured and no one is reported missing, while the occupants of the most heavily damaged home were away at the time.
- UMC Utrecht activated its disaster hospital as a precaution and later stood it down after receiving one patient.
- Grid operator Stedin cut power to 40 homes and gas to 34 to secure the scene, as separate fires in Eindhoven, Waalwijk and Nijkerk are under investigation with no confirmed connection.