Residents of a neighborhood in London lived terrible moments Wednesday when a helicopter crashed on a street. UPDATE: The area where a helicopter crashed Wednesday in London is located near the building MI6, the foreign intelligence services in the UK, and where will be built the U.S. Embassy. It seems that the helicopter struck a crane located on Vauxhall Bridge close to a station, according to the BBC. Vauxhall Bridge Read More ...
Explosions, fires, and floods have devastated New York, killing at least six people statewide. Hurricane Sandy left dozens of houses ablaze as it hit the city while flooding at least seven subway tunnels and overwhelming the emergency services. First reports of major fire were coming in from the Rockaway Park area of Queens, New York. A few hours later, fire engulfed 15 houses in Breezy Point, Queens, and 190 firefighters Read More ...
Rescue squads have carried out controlled explosions on a cruise liner stricken off Italy’s Tuscan coast. A total of eight microcharges were used. The explosions were to allow firefighters and scuba divers to get to parts of the ship that they were previously unable to access. Twenty-nine people are still missing: four crew members and 25 passengers. Authorities are looking for 14 Germans, six Italians, four French nationals and two Read More ...
A major bushfire that was threatening lives and homes near Perth airport has been contained after firefighters worked through the night to contain the blaze.
More people have died and another 35 were injured in an accident on a highway product chain in southwest England, where 27 vehicles were involved. British press described the accident as “the worst ever attended intervention teams.” “We believe that at least seven people died in this accident,” said a local official police press, Anthony Bangham. “We fear that the number of (dead) could increase” because “we believe that there Read More ...
Daughter of a Romanian women established for many years in France, who was playing in a garden Alzen in the south-west of the country, was hung with strings of swing suffocated and died Monday afternoon, according to La Depeche, the electronic edition. When the drama, the mother is nearby, trying to solve administrative problems with a neighbor. Firefighters from Foix, then a helicopter emergency service were called to help the Read More ...
