Fires force evacuations at Amstelveen student dorm & Leeuwarden block
Two separate fires forced the evacuation of an apartment building in Leeuwarden and a student housing complex in Amstelveen overnight. Firefighters had to rescue one Leeuwarden resident with a crane truck. No significant injuries were reported in either fire.
The Leeuwarden fire broke out at around 2:20 a.m. on the ground floor of an apartment building on Albert Schweitzerstraat, a spokesperson for the Veiligheidsregio Fryslân told NOS. The blaze caused a lot of smoke.
The fire brigade evacuated seven homes. Most residents were able to get to safety under their own power, but one resident could find no safe way out. Firefighters rescued that resident with a crane truck.
Paramedics treated one resident at the scene for smoke inhalation. No one had to go to the hospital.
Firefighters had the blaze under control by around 3:40 a.m. The fire brigade declared five homes uninhabitable due to smoke and fire damage.
The Amstelveen fire broke out in a flat on the fifth floor of the Uilenstede student campus at around 00:30 a.m. Firefighters evacuated dozens of residents.
The fire brigade quickly got the blaze under control, and most students could return to their homes at around 1:30 a.m., NOS reported.
No injuries were reported.
