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Limburg wildfire continues to blaze with smell of smoke as far as Friesland and Drenthe

Yesterday morning, a wildfire broke out in Oostrum in North Limburg. Today, emergency services continue to fight the flames. The fire continues to blaze, NOS reports, with the smell of...
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