Rescue Vlissingen drew over 100,000 visitors
The 11th edition of Rescue Vlissingen - the largest rescue services event in the Netherlands - attracted a record number of over 100 thousand visitors on Wednesday. The municipality of Vlissingen eventually called on people to stop coming to the city by car, because there was nowhere left to park, NU.nl reports.
The event included dozens of booths with aid workers and multiple rescue demonstrations. There was also a demonstration with a Chinook CH-47 helicopter from the Royal Dutch Air Force, in which was shown how the helicopter is used to help fight fires with a so-called 'bambi bucket'.
Two years ago the biennial event attracted 80 thousand visitors.
Hoist demo seaking mk48 RS05 rescue vlissingen 15-08-18 pic.twitter.com/BMpX73rDFN
— jeffreyklaaijsen (@jeffreyklaaijse) August 16, 2018
Fantastic #sar #SearchAndRescue #helicopters #helicopter @SARGalileo @HelisDatabase @helihub @verticalmag @rescuevlis #rescue2018 #rescuevlissingen @aviation24_be pic.twitter.com/17IaAUKveP
— David Van Bouwel🇧🇪 (@ilCostro) August 15, 2018
#rescuevlissingen @rescuevlis pic.twitter.com/79SmvkA646
— johan (@johan1970nl) August 15, 2018
Hulde en dank aan bestuur, organisatie, alle deelnemers én vrijwilligers van Rescue #Vlissingen voor weer een fantastisch evenement op en voor onze Boulevard @rescuevlis @gem_vlissingen pic.twitter.com/ivzPPGV5ka
— Albert Vader (@Albert_Vader) August 15, 2018