Fire Management In The Netherlands

Our A/g Deputy Chief Officer Richard Woods has just returned from his teaching and sharing knowledge in Wildfire Investigation.  Please see previous blogs.

Below are some more pictures of firefighting in the Netherlands including their volunteer brigades.

The Control / Dispatch Centre in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.  This is a joint facility where Police and Fire Services operate from.



Netherlands Fire Service (Brandweer) attached to the Harskamp Military Training range.



Cor Scheppink, Commander of the Harskamp Fire Station ‘assisting’ with the test fires for the training course.

Fie tanker assigned to the Harskamp Military Base Fire Station.



Volunteer Fire Station at Hoog Soeron... a small village surrounded by scrub and grassfire risk in the central part of the Netherlands