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The L'Innovation fire was a fire that took place at the À L'Innovation department store on the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat in central Brussels, Belgium, on 22 May 1967. [1] More than 150 firefighters were mobilised to fight it, 251 people were killed, 62 injured, [2] and the department store itself, the work of the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta ...
Firefighting in Belgium. Belgian firefighters performing a firefighting demonstration (2019). In Belgium organized public fire services ( Dutch: brandweer, French: service d'incendie, German: Feuerwehr) are available everywhere in the country. The responsibility to provide general firefighting and rescue services resides with 34 public ...
List of supermarket chains in Belgium. This is a list of supermarket chains in Belgium. As of 2011, in Belgium three major groups form more than two thirds of the market: Colruyt group 27%, Delhaize 22.5% and Carrefour 22%. Then there are Aldi 11%, Lidl 5.6% and Makro 4.5%. [ 1]
World War II. Battle of France (1940) Operation Nordwind (1945) The Maginot Line ( French: Ligne Maginot, IPA: [liɲ maʒino] ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Nazi Germany and force them to move ...
Hubo is a Belgian hardware store -chain. [1] Hubo Belgium and Hubo Netherlands are two separate entities. The headquarters of Hubo Belgium is located in Wommelgem. In 2019, Hubo had over 150 stores spread across Belgium. [2] Hubo Belgium was founded in 1992 after Hubo Netherlands sold its subsidiary (founded in 1972) to three of the local ...
IDF Truck fire (via X) The incidents may prove to be a relative footnote in a campaign in which 18,000 people have been killed and another 50,000 or so wounded, according to local officials.
The site opened in 1946 as the École Royale Technique de la Force Aérienne, the main technical training school for the Belgian Air Force (founded during the Second World War at Snailwell in England). A fire in 1948 led to a temporary relocation to Tongeren while new buildings were constructed, with further works required in the late 1960s ...
August 8, 2024 at 8:35 AM. A fire broke out at Walleys Quarry in Staffordshire on Sunday [Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service] A landfill site that’s been the subject of complaints over ...