{"id":5085,"date":"2017-07-28T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2017-07-28T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:53:31","slug":"fire-in-the-maastricht-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/fire-in-the-maastricht-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the Maastricht Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a big fire inside the old marl mines between Maastricht and Belgium was discovered.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5086\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5086\" class=\"wp-image-5086 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/IMG_4084-e1501253289724-350x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/IMG_4084-e1501253289724-350x330.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/IMG_4084-e1501253289724.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawings in the Maastricht caves (personal photograph)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <em>mergel<\/em><em>grotten\u00a0<\/em>or marl caves\u00a0have been closed (as mines) for many years but still had other uses. The fire is believed to have been started with burning hay that flew towards the caves. It lasted about a week and affected the surrounding areas. People living nearby were <em>ge\u00ebvacueerd\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0evacuated because the smoke was just too dangerous to breathe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brand in grotten tussen Kanne en Maastricht nog niet geblust\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bh22M13HR-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a week of hard work from the <em>hulpdienst\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0emergency services in the Netherlands and Belgium, the fire is now completely extinguished and two suspects have been arrested. \u00a0The full damage of the fire is unknown but it is expected to be large. Ch\u00e2teau Neercanne, a very chique and beautiful restaurant in Maastricht, was significantly affected by the fire. I was there for a wedding a day or two after the fire started and the damage of the smoke was noticeable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Veel roet- en rookschade Ch\u00e2teau Neercanne door grottenbrand\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GfjFvGdsZK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The network of caves in the area is quite impressive. A year ago I visited the area near Sint Petersberg and there is so much history in those caves. There are paintings many artists have created inside the caves. Some areas near Valkenburg are open for team building activities, paintless paintball, laser tag and during Christmas, the\u00a0<em>kerstmarkt<\/em>\u00a0is inside the caves. Another area of the caves in Maastricht still has the remains of the underground city that was\u00a0to be a shelter during World War II. It had different living areas, a bakery, and a chapel. The historical importance of these caves is enormous.<\/p>\n<p>A video of what the damage looks like now is available via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1limburg.nl\/video-exclusief-kijkje-grotten-cannerberg-na-brand?context=topstory\">1Limburg website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have big fires affected your city or country?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Useful Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><em>de\u00a0grot<\/em>&#8211; cave<br \/>\n<em>de brand<\/em>&#8211; fire<br \/>\n<em>het\u00a0hooi<\/em>&#8211; hay<br \/>\n<em>de\u00a0hulpdienst<\/em>&#8211; emergency services<br \/>\n<em>evacueren<\/em>&#8211; to evacuate<br \/>\n<em>de\u00a0schade<\/em>&#8211; damage<br \/>\nde rook- the smoke<br \/>\n<em>de vlammen<\/em>&#8211; the flames<br \/>\n<em>blussen<\/em>&#8211; extinguish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/IMG_4084-e1501253289724-350x330.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/IMG_4084-e1501253289724-350x330.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/IMG_4084-e1501253289724.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Last week, a big fire inside the old marl mines between Maastricht and Belgium was discovered. The mergelgrotten\u00a0or marl caves\u00a0have been closed (as mines) for many years but still had other uses. The fire is believed to have been started with burning hay that flew towards the caves. It lasted about a week and affected&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/fire-in-the-maastricht-caves\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":5086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[27714],"tags":[8580,372807,457095,358393,27605,10149],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","tag-belgium","tag-caves","tag-emergency-services","tag-fire","tag-maastricht","tag-netherlands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}