Satellite images show plumes of smoke from a blaze that began at one of the Dutch army’s main artillery ranges this morning drifting across the North Sea and heading towards Norwich.

The range is at the village ‘t Harde – 60 miles east of Amsterdam – and caused major disruption in the Netherlands forcing a major motorway to close.

The fire broke out near ’t Harde (Image: Google)

A Dutchman posting on the Norwich Reddit page has said: "Your friendly neighbourhood Dutchman here with a public service announcement. There's currently a rather spectacular wildfire raging on a military artillery range in the middle of the Netherlands

"The smoke plume is so massive it's visible on satellite imagery, has shut down a motorway, triggered national emergency alerts across multiple provinces, and they've scrambled Chinook helicopters with giant water buckets to fight it.

"The smoke has already reached the Dutch coast and is now happily making its way across the North Sea in your general direction."

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