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Three houses in Wilrijk, a district of Antwerp, collapsed yesterday afternoon following an apparent gas explosion. An elderly woman died in the explosion.
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I am an ambulance paramedic in the 112 emergency district of Liedekerke.
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It takes, on average, 10 minutes and 53 seconds for firefighters to arrive at the scene of a fire in Belgium, according to newly released figures which reveal big regional differences.
A special phone number set up to alleviate the pressure on the 112 emergency number during bad weather isn't doing its job, a union representing emergency call centre workers has warned.
A Belgian man has died and five other Belgians remain unaccounted for in Greece's worst forest fire disaster in a decade.
Belgium's emergency alert system, BE-Alert, has been put to the test and will be improved over the coming weeks to ensure that emergency messages get out to the public as quickly and reliably as p
The efficiency of the federal emergency alert system BE-Alert was called into question at the weekend after a fire broke out in a container full of lithium batteries in Drogenbos, on the border of
Among the fatal victims of Thursday's terror attack in Barcelona is one “Dutch-speaking Belgian woman”, confirms federal foreign affairs minister Didier Reynders.
