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(Reuters) -Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including the largest fire currently burning in the U.S., which was rapidly expanding near the Oregon-Idaho border on Friday. The Durkee Fire near Huntington, Oregon, has scorched 600 square miles (1,600 square km), an area more than half the size of Rhode Island’s land mass, authorities said. It is threatening several towns. The blaze was set off by lightning […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — A concrete wall collapsed and crushed several vehicles in southern Ecuador early Wednesday, killing at least five people, four of them children, emergency services said. “A total of four injured and five dead,” the emergency services said in a statement after rescue workers recovered the bodies from the rubble in Las Lomas, in the southern province of Azuay. Authorities said the dead were two females, aged 37 and seven, and three […]
ROME, Italy (AFP)–Genoa’s Morandi motorway bridge, a 200-metre (650-foot) portion of which collapsed on Tuesday killing dozens of people, has been riddled with structural problems since its construction in the 1960s, which has led to expensive maintenance and severe criticism from engineering experts. – Celebrated designer – The Morandi bridge was built between 1963 and 1967. It has a maximum span of 219 metres, a total length of 1.18 kilometres, concrete piers (vertical structures that […]
(Eagle News)–Detained Senator Leila de Lima has proposed the creation of a “specialized institute” that would “conduct empirical-based research, planning and development of road safety programs across the country.” In filing Senate Bill (SB) No. 1897 for the establishment of the Philippine Road Safety Institute (PRSI), De Lima noted that road safety was “a problem in the country, especially in highly-urbanized areas.” Under the measure, she said the PRSI would “regularly collect data pertinent to road […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Bagong Henerasyon Party-List Representative Bernadette Herrera-Dy encouraged the Metro Rail Transit and Light Rail Transit administration to adopt an insurance system in case of accidents. Herrera-Dy made the statement in the wake of an accident on November 14 where a young woman lost her right forearm after falling down into the MRT’s platform in Ayala station. Herrera-Dy also said that the MRT must pay for the hospitalization and post-hospitalization […]
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Snow began falling across eastern and western Japan, including Tokyo, early on Monday (January 18) morning. Many commuters arrived at work late as trains were delayed and taxis in high demand. Train stations were also overcrowded. “Everyone got into work an hour late today so we had to start work late. This was slightly troublesome,” said Takeshi Nakamura, a company worker. Japanese media reported that the highest accumulation of snow in central Tokyo was at […]
Up to a dozen containers carrying chemicals caught fire at a terminal at Brazil’s largest port of Santos on Thursday (January 14, 2016), restricting ship movement, representatives of the port authority Codesp said. The fire at the container terminal operated by logistics company Localfrio in Guaruja, on the eastern side of Santos, started around 3 p.m. Brasilia time (1700 GMT), sending plumes of smoke across the shipping channel at the commodity exporting port. A spokeswoman […]
