A bus carrying the UMass Lowell marching band caught fire on Sunday. The Westwood Fire Department received several reports of a bus on fire on High Street (Route 109) near Grove Street around 1:30 p.m. Upon arrival at the scene, the fire was spreading from the outside of the bus to the inside handlines, the fire department said. The bus had been evacuated after a student reported an odor, smoke, and flames, UMass Lowell said in a statement.
Authorities in Alaska are evacuating hundreds from villages on the state's south-west coast that were inundated by the remnants of a typhoon last weekend, in one of the most significant airlifts in the state's history. Over the weekend, the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit remote communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, in the south-western part of the state, decimating two small villages and displacing more than 1,500 people.
Residents of these settlements, especially families with children who, unfortunately, still remain there, must immediately leave the area accompanied by representatives of the evacuation services,
A construction team made a shocking discovery at the Port of Long Beach on Wednesday afternoon when they inadvertently unearthed a World War II-era explosive device, authorities said. The eight-decade-old shell was found at one of the port's six container terminals, according to a port spokesperson. The Long Beach police and fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard evacuated the terminal and established a safety perimeter, while the L.A. County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad responded and assessed the situation.
When I went to a screening of The Lost Bus at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, it was in a very big theater with a big screen and a big audience. The story of a bus driver and a schoolteacher getting a bus full of children to safety during California's devastating 2018 Camp Fire, it stars Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, and there was quite a bit of curiosity about it.
Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a lifeline programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza. The Pause programme for writers and artists in emergency situations, as well as a student evacuation programme, were abruptly suspended by the French government at the beginning of August over a Palestinian student's allegedly antisemitic online remarks, a decision that the letter-writing authors said amounted to a collective
Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London, was evacuated after a fire broke out in one of its multi-storey car parks on Saturday afternoon. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was called to the shopping centre on Montfichet Road just after 16:00 BST. Around 12 vehicles were alight on the second floor of car park C, producing a significant amount of smoke, a spokesperson said.
People have been asked to evacuate Westfield shopping centre in east London following a fire at its multi-storey car park. London Fire Brigade said ten fire engines were in attendance at the shopping centre on Montfichet Road, Stratford. A spokesperson said the fire was "producing a significant amount of smoke" and asked people to avoid the area. They added the shopping centre had been evacuated as a precaution.
Around 150 people were evacuated as a huge fire ripped through a block of flats in south London destroying most of the building. Some 100 firefighters and 15 fire engines were called to the fire on Maysoule Road in Battersea on Wednesday evening. Footage shared online showed flames tearing through the roof of the five-storey building. The residents were evacuated from the building by fire crews wearing breathing apparatus. No injuries have been reported.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of possession of CS gas and causing a public nuisance following the partial evacuation of Heathrow Airport on Monday night. Hundreds of people were forced to leave Terminal 4 at about 17:00 BST on Monday, before being allowed back in at about 20:00. No hazardous materials were found but the Metropolitan Police discovered a can of CS spray and London Ambulance Service treated 20 people for "irritation".
A terminal at Heathrow Airport was evacuated Monday because of possible hazardous material, the London Fire Brigade said. A Heathrow spokesperson said the check-in area at Terminal 4 was closed and evacuated while emergency services responded. The terminal was evacuated as a precaution, the fire department said. The airport asked passengers not to travel to the terminal. Crowds of passengers could be seen outside. All other terminals were operating.
No one was injured after a tour bus in Cape Cod was completely engulfed in flames Saturday afternoon, fire crews said. The driver of the bus was able to evacuate all of the passengers before firefighters arrived around noon on Saturday, the Wellfleet Fire Department said. Crews found a bus "fully engulfed in flames, with fire burning in the brush approaching a nearby home." Firefighters knocked the fire out, the department said, and prevented it from spreading to the home.
Four people were taken to hospital after a fire in Richmond Hill Monday morning. York Region police say they were called after 3 a.m. to a home near Skywood Drive and Rollinghill Road. Nearby residents were evacuated. The fire has since been put out, though police say emergency responders remain on scene in case of hot spots. It's not clear at this point the extent of the victims' injuries, police say.
"We're sitting on our suitcases," a woman named Natalia said in Sviatohorivka, a village on the outskirts of the town of Dobropillia, in eastern Ukraine. Russia's army has advanced to within almost 10 kilometers (6 miles) of her home. Ukrainian soldiers have managed to retake some places from Russia, but the villages all around are still under constant bombardment. The only reason Natalia hasn't left Sviatohorivka yet is that her elderly parents refuse to evacuate.
Many countries, such as France, Ireland and Italy, have successfully evacuated their students through government-coordinated efforts and humanitarian corridors, like via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). These governments made it clear that their students matter. The UK has not.
"As soon as we heard the tsunami warnings, we contacted local law enforcement and FEMA to ensure the road was opened. Any reports otherwise are false."
Komsan and his wife, Rungrat, went to fetch eight-year-old Pongsapak and 14-year-old Taksatorn from school. They were heading home to collect the children's grandparents when a rocket hit.
Officials confirmed the presence of human remains in the only uncleared lot on La Venezia Court, where 74-year-old Juan Francisco Espinoza had lived alone with his dogs.
The Syrian government is evacuating hundreds of Bedouin families trapped inside the southern city of Suwayda, where a fragile ceasefire is holding after Druze and Bedouin fighters fought for a week.
