Tag: Evacuations
Storms force Blazers to take shelter in hotel parking garage
ATLANTA — The Portland Trail Blazers got a bit of a scare before their game against the Atlanta Hawks when a tornado warning forced...
Teenager charged after armed incident at UK college
LONDON — A teenager has been charged after students and staff at a college in southern England were forced to evacuate earlier this week...
2 hurt, 1 detained after gunshot reported at UK college
LONDON — Students and staff at a college in England were evacuated following reports of gunshot fire Monday. Two staff members suffered minor injuries,...
Cape Town wildfire: About 90% of blaze now contained
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Fire crews worked for a third day to extinguish a wildfire on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain...
40,000 displaced in north Mozambique after assault on Palma
JOHANNESBURG — Some 40,000 displaced and urgently needing food, work suspended on a multi-billion-dollar gas investment, and scores of dead still being counted.
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Patients evacuated as fire blazes in Johannesburg hospital
JOHANNESBURG — Hundreds of patients are being evacuated from Johannesburg's Charlotte Maxeke Hospital where a fire is blazing through parts of the facility in...
Hikers scramble as new fissure opens up at Icelandic volcano
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Steam and lava spurted Monday from a new fissure at an Icelandic volcano that began erupting last month, prompting the evacuation...
Leak at wastewater pond prompts evacuations in Florida
BRADENTON, Fla. — Officials in Florida were evacuating homes and a highway Saturday near a large reservoir of wastewater because of a significant leak...
DISPATCH: When home burns, and your job is to cover it
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains had not burned in decades. But they burned the year I lived...
Evacuation request ignored at Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano continued to spew columns of ash thousands of feet (meters) into the air Thursday, but residents of hamlets...
