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Limburg Wildfire Exposes Limits of Dutch Emergency Response Capacity

A wildfire covering about one hundred hectares near Venray forced the deployment of military Chinook helicopters and disrupted regional rail services, with security authorities warning that the Netherlands lacks the capacity to respond to multiple large climate-driven fires at the same time.
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