112 news: Chimney fire in Wedde • Overturned car in Midwolde • Vandalism in Ter Apel

In this blog you can read the latest update above.

In Wedde, a chimney fire raged for some time in a house on the Veerlaan. It was scaled down to medium heat, because in addition to the tanker sprayers from Oude Pekela and Vlagtwedde, the cherry picker from Winschoten was also called.

“When we arrived at the scene, the fire was quickly under control,” firefighters said.

On the main road in Midwolde on Christmas Day, a car overturned and landed on its roof in the ditch. The driver was taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries.

It is being investigated how the accident could have occurred with a single vehicle.

The fire brigade had to put out a row of conifers on Christmas Day evening at the Dr. Bekenkampstraat in Ter Apel.

Conifers may have been lit. Firefighters say on Facebook that “several destructions” have been committed in Ter Apel.

Below in this live blog you can read that manhole covers were raised in Ter Apel and that two people turned on the lighting on the village’s soccer fields.

The football club FC Ter Apel ’96 is the victim of an expensive “joke”.

Video footage from the club shows how two people enter the club grounds at around 00.50am and go to the control booth. They turn on the lights of the synthetic turf field and of another soccer field. These then burn through the night.

“At a time with such high energy costs, we can’t accept this,” writes the pup on his Facebook page. “That’s why there will be a report tomorrow!”

A motorist drove into a raised manhole on Spoorsingel in Ter Apel in the night between Sunday and Monday.

The impact caused the total loss of the car. Nobody was injured.

According to the car owner, a manhole cover had also been loosened and raised further down the road. He thinks there is an act of vandalism and offers a reward of one thousand euros for the gold tip.