Four members of service from Newtown, Pa. were hospitalized earlier this month after being exposed to the highly potent heroin derivative carfentanil while operating at a cardiac arrest response outside of Philadelphia. The three EMTs and one firefighter were exposed to the substance from the victim’s arm or from the interior of the vehicle where […]
A KC-130 military plane carrying 15 Marines and one sailor, traveling from North Carolina to California, crashed in rural Mississippi, killing all aboard. The crash caused a debris field at least three miles long, and local fire crews required 9,000 of foam to extinguish the fires. At one point, firefighters attempting to extinguish the blaze […]
A former Bronx-Lebanon Hospital doctor hiding an AR-15 under a white lab coat opened fire inside the medical center — killing one doctor and injuring six other people before killing himself. According to law enforcement, the suspect started a fire at the nurse’s station but the small blaze was extinguished by the sprinkler system. In […]
An Instagram account associated with an ISIS media arm posted pictures of the Grenfell Tower fire in London along with a message stating the tragedy was “beautiful.” ISIS urgings this week follow the group’s celebration of the fire immediately after it occurred, which included laughing emojis that mock the tragedy and suffering, as well as […]
A blistering heat wave impacting Arizona, Southern Nevada and much of California is expected to last through the end of the week with triple-digit temperatures. Phoenix, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, and others have tied or set all-time record highs during the day, with little relief overnight; the average daily (24 hr) temperature in Tucson, for […]
A fast-moving fire that started on the fourth floor of a large housing complex called Grenfell Tower in North Kensington (West London) spread rapidly upward, most notably from the exterior of the building, trapping many of the more than 400 occupants. As of Thursday, the official death toll is 17, and 18 patients are hospitalized […]
A man with a gun stormed into a casino-hotel in Manila and set gambling tables and other combustibles on fire, which led to the death of 36 people, primarily from smoke inhalation and suffocation, as many of those victims were hiding from the gunfire. The attacker, who was eventually cornered in a hotel room after […]
Four members of service from Newtown, Pa. were hospitalized earlier this month after being exposed to the highly potent heroin derivative carfentanil while operating at a cardiac arrest response outside of Philadelphia. The three EMTs and one firefighter were exposed to the substance from the victim’s arm or from the interior of the vehicle where […]
A KC-130 military plane carrying 15 Marines and one sailor, traveling from North Carolina to California, crashed in rural Mississippi, killing all aboard. The crash caused a debris field at least three miles long, and local fire crews required 9,000 of foam to extinguish the fires. At one point, firefighters attempting to extinguish the blaze […]
A former Bronx-Lebanon Hospital doctor hiding an AR-15 under a white lab coat opened fire inside the medical center — killing one doctor and injuring six other people before killing himself. According to law enforcement, the suspect started a fire at the nurse’s station but the small blaze was extinguished by the sprinkler system. In […]
An Instagram account associated with an ISIS media arm posted pictures of the Grenfell Tower fire in London along with a message stating the tragedy was “beautiful.” ISIS urgings this week follow the group’s celebration of the fire immediately after it occurred, which included laughing emojis that mock the tragedy and suffering, as well as […]
A blistering heat wave impacting Arizona, Southern Nevada and much of California is expected to last through the end of the week with triple-digit temperatures. Phoenix, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, and others have tied or set all-time record highs during the day, with little relief overnight; the average daily (24 hr) temperature in Tucson, for […]
A fast-moving fire that started on the fourth floor of a large housing complex called Grenfell Tower in North Kensington (West London) spread rapidly upward, most notably from the exterior of the building, trapping many of the more than 400 occupants. As of Thursday, the official death toll is 17, and 18 patients are hospitalized […]
A man with a gun stormed into a casino-hotel in Manila and set gambling tables and other combustibles on fire, which led to the death of 36 people, primarily from smoke inhalation and suffocation, as many of those victims were hiding from the gunfire. The attacker, who was eventually cornered in a hotel room after […]
