High Fens, Belgium, 16 August (Brussles Morning Newspaper) Hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes as a Belgium wildfire sweeps across the High Fens, burning around 3,000 hectares of the protected landscape and stretching emergency services close to the German border.
This is huge compared to what little nature we have in Belgium… Appears to be the largest wildfire ever recorded here.
I thought you were joking or exaggerating with that quote!
Nope.
One more for the collection of “quotes that should have ended a career… but didn’t”. Other faves are “the purpose of a tree has always been to be cut down” (Schauvliege, minister of the environment) or “all of us will have to tighten our belts” (prime minister Peeters, forgetting that poor people exist).