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A 13-acre vegetation fire damaged homes outside Oakland, local firefighters said on Friday. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, but during the firefighting efforts, parts of Interstate ...
A "fire weather watch" is issued to inform the public of major, uncontrolled fires threatening populated areas or major roadways.
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City, Texas, USA; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.
October 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM. A fast-moving fire fed by strong winds burned two homes Friday and damaged several others in a hillside neighborhood in Oakland, where hundreds of people were ordered ...
13 February – United States – Five cars of a 96-car CSX freight train derailed in Draffin, Kentucky due to a rockslide. The locomotives and train cars caught fire, causing evacuations of nearby communities. Two crew members were hospitalized. [6] 20 February – Australia – Wallan derailment: Sydney to Melbourne XPT derailed near Wallan ...
Progression of a well-anticipated extremely critical event across the Central Plains on March 6, 2017. This event produced wildfires that burned 1,200,000 acres of land, and killed seven people. An extremely critical fire weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for wildfire events in the United ...
Updated November 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM. LOS ANGELES – A wildfire in Southern California has scorched more than 10,000 acres Wednesday amid an extreme fire weather threat driven by strong Santa Ana ...
2020. February 22 – A pipeline carrying carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, owned by Denbury Resources, exploded in Satartia, Mississippi, causing cars to stop and people to go unconscious; 45 were hospitalized. [2][3] May 4 – A gas transmission pipeline exploded and burned in Fleming County, Kentucky. There were no injuries.