“The Brussels Fire Department would like to expressly thank the partners involved, and in particular the integrated police, for the exemplary cooperation. Our personnel got through this turbulent night without physical injuries. Psychologically is a different story, because who can, the complete In this crazy situation, we understand that emergency workers cannot work in complete safety,” Derieuw said.
“A blatant example: during fire-fighting operations, Molotov cocktails were thrown at our people, who immediately disconnected the fire hose, left it on site and moved to safety with the pump truck. The security forces intervened to secure the scene of the intervention. Until To date, there have been 4 concrete reports of aggression.” The incident with the Molotov cocktails happened on Sint-Denijsplein in Vorst, Derieuw confirmed to BRUZZ.
Drie steps
In addition to the many cars, three shared scooters or electric bicycles were also set on fire. The fire brigade also had to intervene 56 times for smaller fires in which household waste bags, containers, bushes or trees were set on fire.
In the meantime, the “daily” interventions – including house fires – were also completed and the fire brigade was present at the official fireworks at the Atomium.
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