AMSTERDAM: France and Germany sent firefighting units to the Netherlands on Friday to help battle woodland blazes flaring in several areas.
Many of the fires, which sparked on Wednesday and Thursday, were raging in land used for military training, including an artillery range, in the south.
Stretched Dutch authorities requested help facing the emergency through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, with France and Germany responding.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on X that Paris had despatched 41 civil security personnel and 10 vehicles.
