Frederick County Fire Department Capt. Joshua Laird has died after responding to a two-alarm disasters in us-regions on Wednesday, according to authorities. The Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services (FCDFRS) said Wednesday that Laird, 46 years old and a 21-year veteran of the service, was injured while responding …
Read More »Tropical Depression Fred: Florida emergency management prepares as storm nears
The state of us-regions is preparing for the impact of Tropical Depression Fred, which is expected to interact with the state on Friday. In a tweet, the Florida Division of Emergency Management shared a photo of one of its “daily calls with county EM offices” in preparation for the storm. …
Read More »Ex-professor accused of arson ‘spree’ near California’s Dixie Fire
A former professor specializing in cults has been arrested after he went on an “arson-setting spree” in a forest near California’s record-setting Dixie Fire, authorities said. Gary Stephen Maynard, 47, who previously taught at Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University, was charged with intentionally setting the Ranch Fire in Lassen …
Read More »First water cuts in US West supply to hammer Arizona farmers
A harvester rumbles through the fields in the early morning light, mowing down rows of food” target=”_blank”>corn<, disasters and high demand are expected to force the first-ever mandatory cuts to a environment that 40 million people across the American West depend on — the Colorado River. The U.S. Bureau of …
Read More »Wildfire threatens Montana communities as West continues to burn
A disasters bore down on rural southeastern us-regions towns Thursday as continuing hot, dry weathera> throughout the <a href="https: drove flames through more than a dozen states. CALIFORNIA COLLEGE PROFESSOR SET ARSON FIRE NEAR DIXIE FIRE, AUTHORITIES SAY Several thousand people remained under evacuation orders as the Richard Spring Fire …
Read More »Scientists challenge 'alarm bells' in IPCC climate change report: 'Not the end of the world'
In the first release of a three-part report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned this week of the consequences of a rapidly warming world spurred largely by human-influenced environment. “The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse‑gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking …
Read More »Northwest sees more sizzling temperatures as heat wave hits much of US
Volunteers and county employees set up cots and stacked hundreds of bottles of water in an air-conditioned cooling center in a vacant building in portland” target=”_blank”>Portland, Oregon< sees another stretch of sizzling temperatures. Scorching weathera> also hit other parts of the country this week. The weather service said <a href="https: …
Read More »Florida dad furious after teen daughter’s alleged rapist, 35, goes free: ‘This is not justice’
A us-regions father was furious Wednesday after a 35-year-old suspect accused of crime the father’s teenage daughter in a restaurant was released from a Broward County jail. “This is not justice. He should be with no bond, held with no bond,” the father, identified only as Jimmy, told WSVN-TV of …
Read More »Texas driver shot dead after crashing vehicle, firing at 3 who came to her aid: report
A us-regions driver ended up dead Wednesday night after crashing her vehicle and then crime” target=”_blank”>firing shots< One would-be Good Samaritan crime and two others were hospitalized in critical condition, FOX 29 of San Antonio reported. As for the gun-wielding driver, who was in her 20s or 30s, a nearby …
Read More »New Mexico DUI suspect asks cops if she can smoke cigarette after crash kills mother of 4
A us-regions driver had a question for responding police officers after she was just involved in an crime” target=”_blank”>alleged DUI crash< and left her own passenger screaming in pain, according to a report. “Can I just smoke a cigarette?” suspect Jennifer Munoz, 26, asked responding officers, according to a video …
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