KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan — Taiwanese officials set up an independent commission Friday to investigate the conditions at a run-down building in the port city of Kaohsiung where a fire killed 46 people, while authorities scoured the blackened ruins for the cause of the blaze. Prosecutor Hong Ruei-fen told reporters at theContinue Reading
The blaze started in the 13-story commercial and residential building at 2:54 a.m. local time (2:54 p.m. ET) in Kaohsiung city’s Yancheng district, according to Taiwan’s official Central News Agency (CNA). Rescue operations are still underway, with more than 377 rescue workers deployed to the scene, a spokesman at theContinue Reading
Authorities in London say a fire erupted on the 20th floor of an apartment building in the city’s southwest, causing dozens of residents, including children in pajamas, to flee the tower and injuring one woman and a child ByThe Associated Press October 12, 2021, 11:37 PM • 2 min readContinue Reading
Wildfires have always been a normal part of life in the American West. During a typical year in the late 20th century, fires burned about 500,000 acres a year in California — an area equal to roughly half the size of Rhode Island. Over the past decade or so, theContinue Reading
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — An inferno had already fully engulfed a two-story dermatology clinic on Joyful Street in central Mykolaiv by the time Stanislav Ustich and his team of firefighters arrived, just minutes after a Russian rocket slammed into the courtyard in front of the building, carving out a crater bigContinue Reading
A fire tore through the intensive care unit of a Romanian hospital where Covid patients were being treated on Friday, killing at least seven people and raising public outrage over the dismal state of the nation’s health care infrastructure. It was the third deadly hospital blaze in the country inContinue Reading
A Tesla Megapack in Moss Landing, California Andrew Evers | CNBC Renewable energy giant Neoen plans to switch its Tesla Megapacks back on at the Victorian Big Battery in Southeast Australia this week, after a fire in late July at the energy storage site. Victoria’s safety regulator for electricity, gasContinue Reading
KYIV, Ukraine — Shelling near a Russian-occupied nuclear power complex in southern Ukraine has hit the fire station tasked with extinguishing any blazes inside the sprawling facility, officials said Monday, amid ongoing concerns over nuclear safety because of fighting in the area. Russian forces seized control of the Zaporizhzhia NuclearContinue Reading
At least 41 people were killed and at least 12 were injured on Sunday after a fire broke out at a church in the Egyptian city of Giza as worshipers gathered for Sunday prayers, according to the country’s Health Ministry. Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the blazeContinue Reading
The incident at the Congo – Uganda border post in Kasindi in the restive eastern part of the country is the latest involving the peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, which has come under pressure from days of protests. It was not clear why the soldiers opened fire. “ThisContinue Reading