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A major fire in a residential apartment building in the Bronx in New York City on Sunday left 19 people dead, including 9 children, in what Mayor Eric Adams described as one of the worst fires the city has experienced in modern times.
Source: Bronx apartment building fire leaves 19 people dead, including 9 children
At least seven people have died and three others are missing after a huge slab of rock fell from a cliff face onto tourist boats on a lake in Brazil.
A further 32 people were injured, nine of them seriously, after a canyon wall plunged into the water and onto motorboats on Furnas lake in Capitolio, Minas Gerais state, on Saturday.
Videos posted on social media showed a cluster of small boats near the cliff face when the rock smashed into the water, landing on two of the vessels. Onlookers could be heard screaming as other boats close to the scene sped off to escape.
Minas Gerais Fire Department commander Edgard Estevo said divers were searching for up to 20 people missing following the disaster, but some of those feared lost were located by phone.Two boats were hit directly by the rocks and 24 people rescued from them alive, fire department spokesman Pedro Aihara said. Seven bodies have been recovered.
Source: At least seven dead after canyon wall collapses onto motorboats on lake in Brazil
“Keep these folks, and especially the children, in your prayers. Losing so many kids is just devastating,” Mayor Kenney said.
13 people dead after row house fire in Fairmount section of Philadelphia, sources say
Firefighters arrived to find heavy flames shooting from the second story of the three-story row house.At least two others are injured.
There was no immediate word as to the ages of those who died. Neighbors say there were a number of children who lived inside the home.
Neighbor Bill Richards who lived on the block for 24 years says he heard a woman yell, “Oh my God! Oh my God!”
He then heard fire trucks and came outside.
“It’s very upsetting,” Richards said. “I just can’t wrap myself around it.”
Richards spoke about a young man he has watched grow up who lives in the building.
“It’s a great neighborhood – a varied neighborhood. There are houses that have single families, multi-families, there are apartments, a lot of renters but there are single families. I’ve been here for 24 years. I love the neighborhood,” Richards said.
Source: 7 children among at least 13 dead after house fire in Fairmount section of Philadelphia
DENVER, Jan 1 (Reuters) – Three people are missing and feared dead after a wind-stoked wildfire roared through two towns in Boulder County, Colorado, prompting thousands of evacuations and destroying nearly 1,000 homes, authorities said on Saturday.
Officials initially said there were no reports of fatalities or missing residents following the rare urban wildfire that erupted Thursday morning on the northern outskirts of the Denver metropolitan area.
Wind gusts in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 kph) pushed flames eastward into the towns of Superior and Louisville, prompting the evacuation of both communities.In about two hours, the fire had scorched 6,000 acres, officials said.
Source: Three people missing and feared dead from fierce Colorado wildfire
Large wildfires outside Denver destroyed at least 580 homes, forced the evacuation of 30,000 and sent six people to hospitals as fire crews prepare to further assess the destruction Friday morning.
Source: Colorado fires: At least 580 homes destroyed, more than 30,000 evacuated
HAVERHILL, Mass. —
An Amtrak train collided with a truck on Monday, just south of the New Hampshire and Massachusetts state border, leading to an elderly man’s death.
The incident occurred at about 12:48 p.m. in the area of Rosemont Street, where the tracks have an at-grade crossing. The train came to a halt just north of that intersection and some of the wheels of the passenger cars had visibly derailed.
Source: Man killed as Amtrak train hits truck, derails near Mass. border
An airplane crashed Monday evening in the El Cajon area of Southern California, leaving no survivors, authorities said.
(CNN)An airplane crashed Monday evening in the El Cajon area of Southern California, leaving no survivors, authorities said.
The plane was scheduled to land at a local airfield when it went down just after 7 p.m, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.Firefighters found no survivors at the scene, authorities said in a news release, but they did not specify how many victims were found.No one was hurt on the ground, the Sheriff’s Department confirmed. The medical examiner will investigate and identify the victims once family members have been notified, the release added.The Sheriff’s Department said the plane was a Learjet, and authorities are uncertain how many people were on board, CNN affiliate KGTV reported.“When firefighters arrived at the scene there was significant rain occurring and there was a large debris field that stretched about 200 feet,” Lakeside Fire Protection District Chief Don Butz told CNN.
Source: El Cajon: Airplane crashes near San Diego, California, authorities report no survivors – CNN
At least six people were killed when a tornado smashed through a massive Amazon warehouse in Illinois, one in series of twisters blamed for scores of deaths in five states.
Edwardsville Fire Chief James Whiteford said late Saturday that another injured Amazon worker was airlifted to a hospital and searchers were carefully picking through the rubble for additional victims. At least 45 people survived the carnage wrought Friday when the tornado struck the building, about 30 miles northeast of St. Louis at about 8:30 p.m. local time.
Because the devastation came during a shift change, authorities struggled to determine how many people were actually in the building or otherwise unaccounted for.
Whiteford said the building’s walls collapsed and the roof caved in. A section of the building longer than a football field was destroyed. Police officers worked alongside Amazon employees, extricating trapped people from the rubble, he said.
Source: Victims identified after tornado kills 6 at Amazon warehouse in Illinois
PITTSBURGH —
Emergency responders were called to the scene of a train derailment in Allegheny County on Sunday morning.
It was around 4:30 a.m. that the incident happened in the area of East Carson Street and Becks Run Road in Baldwin Borough, not far from Pittsburgh’s Hays neighborhood.
Source: Train derails in Allegheny County
MAYFIELD, Ky. —
Gov. Andy Beshear said dozens, maybe up to 100, were killed in western Kentucky after a long and significant tornado ripped through the area overnight.
“This is going to be some of the worst tornado damage that we’ve seen in a long time,” Beshear said early Saturday. “This is likely to be the most severe tornado outbreak in our state’s history.”
The city of Mayfield, Kentucky was hit particularly hard, including a candle manufacturing factory that was operating at the time the twister hit. There were 110 people in the building at the time that it was nearly collapsed by the tornado. Dozens are expected to be lost from there, Beshear said.
Source: Kentucky tornadoes: Death toll could reach 100, governor says
At least two Amazon workers in Illinois were killed and others injured Friday night when a warehouse collapsed during a severe storm that moved through the St. Louis area.
Tornadoes and storms swept across several Midwest and Southern states, including Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee, leaving destruction in their wake.
Local emergency responders called the fulfillment center collapse in Edwardsville, Illinois, about 25 miles east of St. Louis, a “mass casualty incident.”
Thirty people were bused to Pontoon Beach, Illinois, to be reunited with family, officials said.
A wall the length of a football field and the warehouse’s roof collapsed. Around 100 emergency vehicles descended upon the fulfillment center where dozens of workers were reportedly trapped.
Source: 2 Amazon warehouse deaths confirmed in Illinois after collapse during severe storm
(CNN)A woman who was pulled from a car submerged in rushing water near the brink of Niagara Falls has died, New York State Park Police said Wednesday.
The unnamed local woman in her 60s was pulled from the car by a rescue swimmer dangling from a US Coast Guard helicopter about 50 yards from the American Falls, police said.“We have never had a vehicle in the water this close to the brink,” New York State Park Police Captain Chris Rola said in a press conference.The woman was the only occupant of the car, which witnesses spotted floating down the river, Rola said.
Source: Niagara Falls: New York woman pulled from submerged car near the brink has died, police say – CNN
This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 for more updates.
Source: Crews battle fire at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church in Arnold
AVELLA, Pa. —
The state police fire marshal was investigating a fire that tore through a home in Cross Creek Township, Washington County, early Wednesday morning.
The fire was reported a little after 1:20 a.m. on Gardner Street.
Source: Man burned in Washington County fire
BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world raced Friday to contain a new coronavirus variant potentially more dangerous than the one that has fueled relentless waves of infection on nearly every continent.
A World Health Organization panel named the variant “omicron” and classified it as a highly transmissible virus of concern, the same category that includes the predominant delta variant, which is still a scourge driving higher cases of sickness and death in Europe and parts of the United States.
Source: World races to contain new COVID threat, the omicron variant | AP News
The fire happened at the intersection of Montezuma and Brainard Streets. Flames were showing from the second story and extended into the third floor.
Stay with WPXI.com and watch Channel 11 News for updates on this developing story.
Source: Firefighters battle structure fire in Pittsburgh
More than 20 people were reported injured after an SUV plowed through a holiday parade in a Milwaukee suburb.
WAUKESHA – A treasured rite of the holiday season turned into a scene of bloody, violent mayhem late Sunday afternoon as a vehicle plowed into the Waukesha Christmas Parade, leaving more than 20 people injured, including children, and shaking the community, authorities said.
There were some fatalities but a figure was not released as authorities sought to notify families.
Eleven adults and 12 children were ferried to local hospitals.
Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly called the incident a “horrible and senseless act.”
Source: Car plows through Christmas parade in downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin
More than 20 people were reported injured after an SUV plowed through a holiday parade in a Milwaukee suburb.
WAUKESHA – A car plowed into the Waukesha Christmas Parade Sunday evening, leaving more than 20 people injured, authorities said.
“Tonight was a traumatic situation for the City of Waukesha,” Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly said at a news conference.
Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said that at around 4:39 p.m. a red SUV drove into the Christmas Parade “and more than 20 people were injured as a result of this incident.”
A suspect vehicle was recovered and there is a “person of interest we’re looking into,” the police chief said. People were transported to local hospitals via ambulances and police vehicles, he added.
“Very tragic incident, very chaotic,” Thompson said.
He said the “scene was now safe.”
The incident occurred during one of the city’s biggest and most cherished annual events.
Angelito Tenorio, a West Allis alderman who is running for Wisconsin state treasurer, said he had just finished marching in the parade with his family and friends and was walking back toward Main Street.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — First responders were called out the scene of a fire on Pittsburgh’s South Side early Saturday morning..
Officials say the call came in early Saturday morning just before 5:30 a.m. in the 1100 block of East Carson Street.
Fire Chief Darryl Jones tells KDKA that one person was rescued from the building and was taken to the hospital. The person is believed to be in critical condition.
Break happened early Tuesday morning.
The water main break initially happened a little after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and it took about two hours for crews to get the water shut off.
It was not immediately clear if any customers were impacted by the water main break.
Source: Water main break shuts down road in the North Hills
REST IN PEACE ? Among the victims is a 9-year-old boy who had been on a ventilator after he fell and was trampled during the Travis Scott concert.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As an investigation continues into the Astroworld Festival tragedy, the death toll is now up to 10 people.
The latest death is 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who fell and was trampled during Travis Scott’s performance.
A fourth man is arrested after a taxi explodes outside a Liverpool hospital on Remembrance Sunday.
An explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday has been declared a terror incident by police.
A taxi exploded and was engulfed in flames just before 11:00 GMT at a drop-off zone near the entrance, killing the passenger and injuring the driver.
The cabbie, named locally as David Perry, was declared a hero by Liverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson for locking the suspect inside the vehicle.
Four men have been arrested in the city under the Terrorism Act.
Head of Counter Terrorism Policing North West, Russ Jackson, said the taxi passenger appeared to have made an “improvised explosive device” which caused the blast.
The man’s motivation was “yet to be understood”, he added.
Source: Liverpool Women’s Hospital explosion declared a terror incident – BBC News
Pittsburgh Public Safety said commuters should expect to see detours throughout the day while crews cleaned up after the incident on Butler Street in Lawrenceville.
Source: Part of facade comes off building in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood
An oil tanker truck exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, killing at least 98 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday.
The explosion took place after a bus struck the tanker. Large crowds then gathered to collect leaking fuel.
Source: Oil tanker explosion kills at least 98 in Sierra Leone – CBS News
Fire broke out early Friday morning.
BRADDOCK, Pa. —
A large fire broke out inside a home in Braddock on Friday morning.
Thomas Bunn, Jr., who lives in the home, said there were candles burning inside and they may have led to the fire.
Source: ‘This is unbelievable:’ Resident says candles may have led to large fire in Braddock
(CNN)At least 16 people were wounded in two blasts at a military hospital in the Afghan capital on Tuesday.
It was unclear if there were fatalities in the blasts at the Daoud Khan Military hospital, a teaching facility near the Afghan capital’s diplomatic quarter. Taliban officials said special forces have arrived at the scene.A doctor treating incoming patients at the nearby Wazir Akbar Khan civlian hospital said seven injured people had come in so far. All were male, two of them were in critical condition, he said. He said he did not know if the patients from the nearby military hospital hit in the blasts were visitors, medical personnel or patients.In addition, the humanitarian NGO “Emergency” tweeted that nine injured were brought to its hospital in Kabul.The Daoud Khan Military hospital has been targeted before. In 2011, suicide bombers linked tothe Taliban blew themselves up inside the facility, killing six people and injuring 26 others.
Source: Kabul: At least 16 wounded in hospital blasts – CNN
At least one home was destroyed by fire and at least two others were damaged in Pittsburgh’s Perry South neighborhood.
The fire broke out a little before 4:30 a.m. Thursday at a house on the 300 block of Kennedy Avenue.
“We were sleeping and next thing you know we heard a big explosion,” said homeowner Jasmine Archibald.
Archibald said the fire was downstairs and she, her son and her boyfriend had to jump off the roof from the home down to the yard to get out.
“Everything was burning. There was no going back,” said Archibald.
There were no initial reports of injuries.
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
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WALL, Pa. —
Flames engulfed a house in Wall, Allegheny County, on Wednesday morning.
The fire happened in the 600 block of Dawson Street. Fire officials said a man was able to get out of the house. No information on the person’s condition was immediately available.
This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Fire Chief John Rogowski, of United Volunteer Fire & Rescue, said the flames spread to a neighboring home. Firefighters said everyone got out of the house safely.
Rogowski said the cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
Source: House fire breaks out in Wall, Allegheny County
SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. —
A fire damaged Patete Kitchen and Bath Design Center in Scott Township early Wednesday morning.
The fire was reported a little before 12:05 a.m. at the business on the 1100 block of Washington Avenue.
The fire chief said a person driving by saw the smoke and immediately contacted emergency officials about the fire.The chief said the fire started in the wood shop area of the building and that one firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion.
“We don’t know that it’s a total loss yet,” said Barry Erenrich, Vice President of Patete Kitchen and Bath Design Center. “Right now part of the shop is in bad shape but we were able to pull out all of our important files, everything that we need to continue to do business outside of the showroom area.”
Erenrich also said no one was inside the building at the time of the fire.
Erenrich added, “We’re going to be able to continue to service all of our customers. Everybody that purchased from us, we’re going to be able to take care of. We’re going to be able to keep operating. We may just need to do so from a remote location.”
The fire marshal was called to the scene of the fire.
Source: Fire tears through business in Scott Township
UNIONTOWN, Pa. —
Police said a fire inside of a home in Uniontown on Monday night may be suspicious.
The fire broke out around 10 p.m. at a home on Winona Street.
Police said the home was vacant but people were getting ready to move in.No one was hurt.
An investigation is underway into the cause of the fire.
Source: Police say fire in Uniontown may be suspicious
