Searchers combing through the ruins of the deadliest wildfire in California history found eight more bodies Friday, bringing the number of dead in the Camp Fire to 71 as more than 1,000 people remained unaccounted for. Seven of the eight bodies were found in the town of Paradise, which was all but destroyed in the […]
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California Fire Death Toll Reaches 31; Hundreds Missing
Thousands of firefighters across California were trying to hold the line on a pair of deadly wildfires as powerful winds picked back up on Sunday, roaring across a state that had seen a slight reprieve overnight. North of Sacramento, the Camp Fire — believed to be the most destructive in state history — had killed […]
California Wildfires Kill At Least 11
Pictures and videos show the devastation wildfires have brought to the state of California this week, forcing thousands of residents to flee the destruction and leaving at least 11 people dead. On Saturday, officials said the Camp Fire that began burning in Paradise, California, on Thursday has destroyed more than 6,700 buildings, mostly homes, making it California’s most […]
Trump Says Scientists Have Political Agenda
US President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a “political agenda” as he cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the earth’s rising temperatures. But Mr Trump also said he no longer believed climate change was a hoax. The comments, made during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, come less than […]
Hurricane Death Toll Reaches 17, Many Still Missing
Days after powerful Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday just north of Mexico Beach, Florida, thousands of people have been reported missing to local authorities. Emergency crews made it their mission Friday to search for people after the Category 4 storm barreled into the Florida Panhandle before making its way to southwest Georgia and South Carolina – […]
Hurricane Michael Has Claimed 13 Lives Already
The death toll from Hurricane Michael’s devastating march up the East Coast rose to 13 on Friday as the storm lashed Virginia and killed at least five people in the state. The storm was making its way toward the Atlantic Ocean on Friday as a post-tropical cyclone with winds gusting at 65 mph, according to […]
Hurricane Michael Hits Florida Panhandle
Hurricane Michael remained a very dangerous Category 3 storm Wednesday night, hours after it landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as the strongest hurricane ever to hit that part of the state in recorded history. “The nation has watched as this storm has devastated the Panhandle,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said on Wednesday evening, but he […]
Hurricane Florence Has Claimed Lives Of At Least 6 Victims
Even though Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to Tropical Storm Florence, it is still dangerous due to its slow-moving pace that is causing torrential rains and heavy flooding. Rescue and response operations are underway Saturday in the Carolinas after Tropical Storm Florence battered homes up and down the coast, killing at least five people and leaving millions of […]
Hurricane Florence To Hit Carolinas For 24 Hours Straight
Hurricane Florence could batter parts of coastal North and South Carolina with hurricane conditions for 24 hours or more and bring up to 40 inches of rain in its center, federal emergency officials said Wednesday. The storm was expected to make landfall late Thursday or Friday in coastal North Carolina and then potentially stall churning […]
Hurricane Florence Strongest Storm In Decades To Hit Carolinas
Ken Graham, director of the National Hurricane Center, doesn’t see anything in Hurricane Florence’s path that will weaken the category 4 hurricane before it makes landfall. As Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm, drove toward the East Coast on Tuesday, lawmakers from three states in the “monster” storm’s path have ordered mass evacuations for more […]
1,000,000 People Issued Mandatory Evacuations Ahead Of Florence
As Hurricane Florence barrels toward the Southeast as a Category 4 storm, South Carolina’s governor has ordered evacuations along the state’s entire coastline — which could affect up to a million people. “We know that this evacuation order is going to be inconvenient for some people,” Gov. Henry McMaster said at a news conference on […]
Pipeline Spills 8,000 Gallons Of Fuel Into Indiana River
A Houston-based company says one of its pipelines has spilled more than 8,000 gallons of jet fuel into a river in Indiana. Buckeye Pipe Line says it shut the line down immediately when it found the pressure problem Friday night, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. Local officials say they have placed booms in St Marys River, the […]