A firefighters worked to stay ahead of the burgeoning Wallow Fire in Arizona, conflicting information spread about whether the blaze had finally crossed over into New Mexico. More than 1,000 firefighters converged on this village in the Gila National Forest on Saturday as a massive wildfire that scorched eastern Arizona moved to within a quarter [...]
Saturday the 26 April 1986 at 1:46 am an experiment at the Plant number 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear Plant something goes seriously wrong. And as the Ukranian town of Pripyat slept, unfolding 3 kms away was the world’s worst nuclear disaster. After 25 years TIMES NOW visited the ghost town of Pripriyat. The first [...]
Pennsylvania state police say a mother was in a barn milking cows and her husband was asleep in his truck when their farmhouse caught fire, killing seven of their children, ages 7 months to 11 years. Trooper Tom Pinkerton says a 3-year-old girl escaped from the blaze to alert her mother, who police believe tried [...]
7 children died in a fire at a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania while their parents were elsewhere, state police said Wednesday morning. The children — ages 7 months to 11 years — died Tuesday night when the fire fully engulfed the Mennonite family’s two-story house in Loysville, about 25 miles northwest of Harrisburg, Tom Pinkerton [...]
Ohio home exploded into flames early Wednesday, killing a woman and her grandson in a blast that was heard miles away and leaving nothing at the site but a large crater filled with debris. A home exploded into flames early Wednesday, killing a woman and her grandson and throwing them from the house in a [...]
A child was killed, dozens of homes were destroyed and hundreds of people were evacuated as wildfires swept across tens of thousands of acres in West Texas. Wildfires have burned more than 110,000 acres and destroyed nearly 70 homes after a dry, windy day in West Texas. Texas Forest Service spokesman Lewis Kearney (KAR’-nee) says [...]
A kitchen fire filled a home daycare center in Houston, Texas Thursday, killing 3 children and injuring 4 others. A state agency was investigating Friday whether a woman who provided licensed child care in her home left seven preschoolers alone in the house before a fire broke out Thursday, killing three of the children and [...]
A five-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood Saturday, injuring 25 firefighters and three civilians, local media reported. Fanned by strong winds, the blaze on East 29th Street forced the evacuation of an estimated 100 people, the NBC station said. The New York Fire Department said the blaze burned the upper [...]
5 people are dead after a powerful gas line explosion ripped through downtown Allentown, Pennsylvania. Authorities say the five victims are a couple in their 70s, a 4-month-old boy, a 16-year-old girl and one of the children’s parents. The victims are from two families who lived in the two townhouses that were destroyed by the [...]
Fire destroyed the headquarters of at least three of Rio de Janeiro’s top-tier samba schools on Monday, less then a month before the city’s Sambadrome parade. For months, the carnival-mad supporters of Grande Rio, one of Rio de Janeiro’s leading samba schools, have been dreaming of victory. With the city’s world-famous carnival set to begin [...]
