Why firefighting was no match for a California disaster decades in the making. There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm: When a two-story house is on fire under normal ...

Non-Japanese speakers were excluded from access to disaster information after the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck 30 years ago, and Japanese and foreign residents are still filling in the cracks.

Tensions grew at Rourkela's Dalmia Cement plant as families of three missing workers, trapped after a coal bunker collapse, tried to enter the premises. Despite ongoing rescue efforts, the workers ...

LONDON - UK patients are “coming to harm” with hospitals so overwhelmed people are dying in corridors awaiting treatment amid a “collapse in care standards”, a report said on Jan 16.

“It’s not the same as ‘I’m going to go in with a shovel and clear out the mud from the flood,’” said Patricia McIlreavy, president and CEO of nonprofit Center for Disaster Philanthropy.

The car was damaged, and the roof was damaged. There were cracks everywhere… It’s such a disaster.” Ukraine and Russia conducted their first prisoner exchange of the year with Ukraine bringing home 25 ...

These are securities that protect issuers, mostly insurers and governments, from severe losses in the event of a natural disaster by paying out when certain conditions are met. In fact ...

They were also lensed distributing food with Spanish chef José Andrés, the founder of the World Central Kitchen, which has been delivering meals throughout the disaster. While praised for their ...

SANDUSKY, Ohio – Plans to connect Sandusky and Port Clinton via a new pedestrian-bike trail across Sandusky Bay are a bit closer to reality with the announcement this week that the project has ...

Officers said a wagon had crashed into a bridge, which collapsed as a result. No injuries were reported. The road is set to be “closed for some time” and is closed at both ends. A police ...

Newark’s history as a brew town is evident in the Anheuser-Busch plant that opened in 1951 on Route 1&9 and still produces Budweiser and Bud Light, or the 1885 Ballantine House, preserved as ...

The Disaster Recovery Center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the next several weeks. Amid the parade of surreal images from the last few days, few have been stranger than this one ...