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By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Marco Bello BAT CAVE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Crews on Monday airlifted emergency food and water into remote North Carolina towns that were cut off and devastated by tropical storm Helene that turned the western part of the state into a “post apocalyptic” landscape. Helene was a hurricane when it slammed into the Florida Gulf coast on Thursday, tearing a destructive path through southeastern states for days on end, ripping up […]
WASHINGTON, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – A missing military helicopter was found Wednesday in California but the search for the five service members who were aboard it is still ongoing, the US Marine Corps said. The five Marines were flying on a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in southern California when “the aircraft was reported overdue” on Tuesday, the service said in a […]
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – A multinational mission to find a missing submersible near the Titanic wreck is still focused on rescuing the five-member crew alive, the US coast guard insisted Thursday, despite fears that the vessel’s oxygen may already have run out. Two more unmanned subs were deployed Thursday as the massive hunt for the Titan, lost somewhere in a vast swathe of the North Atlantic between the ocean’s surface and more than […]
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – A massive search and rescue effort for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic was at a critical stage late Wednesday, with just hours left before the oxygen supply for the five people on board runs out. While coast guard officials insisted they remained “hopeful,” with a surge of assets and experts joining the operation and sonar picking up unidentified underwater noises, the challenge of locating and […]
by Sonny Tumbelaka Agence France Presse BALI, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesia’s desperate search for a missing submarine and its crew of 53 honed in on a radar contact Friday, with just hours to go before the stricken vessel’s oxygen reserves ran out. The ramped-up hunt comes as Australia and the United States are set to join the search off the coast of Bali where the sub disappeared more than two days ago during training […]
by Javier Tovar Agence France Presse PARADISE, United States (AFP) — Firefighters backed by air tankers and helicopters battled California’s raging wildfires for a seventh day on Wednesday as the authorities in the worst-hit county released a list of over 100 missing people. Most of those unaccounted for are from the Butte County town of Paradise, which was virtually erased from the map by the so-called “Camp Fire” blaze. Paradise, a town of around 26,000 […]
by Patrick Lee Agence France Presse KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — The search for flight MH370 will end next week, Malaysia’s transport minister said Wednesday, more than four years after the plane disappeared and triggered one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished in March 2014 with 239 people — mostly from China — on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No sign of the jet was found in […]
(Eagle News)–The Judicial and Bar Council will wait for the final ruling on the quo warranto petition filed against Maria Lourdes Sereno before it proceeds with the search for a new Chief Justice. This was confirmed by Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, an ex-officio member of the JBC. Voting 8-6, the Supreme Court granted the petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida against Sereno, thereby nullifying her appointment as chief magistrate. In making the decision, the […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — The aerial search for survivors from a ferry that sank in the remote Pacific was suspended Friday with more than 80 people still missing, many of them children, officials said. “The Kiribati government has suspended aerial searches for survivors of the ferry MV Butiraoi,” Rescue Coordination Center New Zealand said in a statement. The Butiraoi set off January 18 on a two-day voyage with 88 people aboard, including 23 children and teenagers. […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Searchers have completed the grim hunt through the ruins of an Italian hotel buried by an avalanche and found the final bodies, bringing the toll to 29 dead, authorities said Thursday. The hundreds of rescuers who aided in the searches after the January 18 disaster, which saw the Hotel Rigopiano ripped from its foundations by a wall of snow and debris, saved 11 people. Locals authorities said in a brief statement […]
PENNE, Italy (Reuters) — Rescue workers at a base camp in Penne, some 10 km (6 miles) away from a mountain hotel buried by an avalanche, prepared to continue their search efforts on Friday (January 20) morning. Rescuers dug all night in deep snow and debris looking for some 30 missing people who were staying in the luxury hotel in central Italy when an avalanche struck almost two days ago. Officials have confirmed finding two […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) — Search resumed in Indonesia’s quake zone for the third day on Friday (December 9) after more than 100 people were killed and thousands left homeless. The quake toppled hundreds of buildings in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra island, which has declared a two-week state of emergency. Rescuers in Aceh’s Pidie Jaya regency focused their search on a market complex, which suffered more damage than other parts of the […]
