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☆ 11 injured in Louisville explosion, shelter-in-place order issued for 'hazardous materials incident'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Doha Madani | Doha Madani Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. Pronouns | She Her. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The city's emergency services posted on X that there has been a "hazardous materials incident" at the address of a Givaudan Sense Colours, a company that makes natural food colorings. It is the scene of a "large scale incident," according to a post from the Louisville Fire Department. Louisville Fire Chief Brian O’Neill told reporters the response was for an explosion, structural collapse and hazardous material incident. WAVE“Once we got the fire knocked down we immediately started air monitoring for the immediate area,” O’Neill said. Video from NBC affiliate WAVE showed a large police presence and emergency services vehicles lining the road of what appeared to be a residential street.

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☆ Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Gunmen who opened fire at a Moscow concert hall killed more than 60 people and wounded over 100 while sparking an inferno, authorities said on March 23, 2024, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility. The prosecutor's office said several men in combat fatigues entered the concert hall and fired on concertgoers. Working to extinguish the blaze continues at Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow, Russia after reports of a shooting incident on March 23, 2024. Working to extinguish the blaze continues at Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow, Russia after reports of a shooting incident on March 23, 2024. An injured woman is transported to an ambulance near the Crocus City Hall concert venue following a reported shooting incident, near Moscow, Russia.

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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAmerica's firetrucks are becoming electrified. Here's howOshkosh Corporation is an $8.3 billion maker of firetrucks, tactical vehicles, news vans, mail trucks and construction lifts, among other things. Its Pierce brand is the largest maker of firetrucks in North America. Between 2012 and 2021, home fires alone took nearly 3,000 lives, caused more than 11,000 injuries and nearly $9 trillion in damage. It won a $3 billion contract to build the next generation USPS delivery truck.

Persons: Pierce Organizations: Oshkosh Corporation, USPS Locations: Oshkosh, North America

☆ How a specialty vehicle manufacturer is electrifying firetrucks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Robert Ferris | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Pierce has already delivered its Volterra electric firetruck to numerous fire departments across the country and has more on the way. Mail truck? Oshkosh makes them all, along with airport emergency vehicles, tow trucks, concrete mixers, truck-mounted cranes, military vehicles and others. The company makes an electric firetruck called the Volterra and is electrifying other vehicles in other departments. The postal truck is designed so that internal combustion versions can be retrofitted with battery electric technology.

Persons: Pierce Organizations: Oshkosh Corporation, The, Oshkosh, United States Postal Service Locations: North America, The Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Volterra

☆ 4 Russian Il-76 transport planes were damaged in a fiery blaze after a Ukrainian drone strike hit a Russian airfield more than 400 miles from the border
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian drone strike damaged four Russian transport planes at a Russian airbase in Pskov, per reports. The strike comes as Ukraine ramps up its attacks in Russia to bring to the war home to Putin. Satellite imagery suggests two of the planes were destroyed and two were significantly damaged. One of the Russian Il-76 aircraft destroyed at Pskov Air Base by Ukrainian drones earlier this week. Another damaged IL-76 aircraft has same black spot.

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CNN —At least 12 people died and 65 more were injured in an explosion in the Dominican Republic, the Dominican Red Cross said in a statement. Some 55 people are also missing after the incident on Monday, which occurred in Villa Valdez, San Cristobal province, according to the Tuesday statement. Three structures completely collapsed following the blast near a shopping center, added the Red Cross. Fires burn after the blast on August 14. Abinader ordered the mobilization of emergency services, including 20 ambulances and 14 firetrucks, to respond to the incident, emergency services said.

Persons: Jolivel Brito, Luis Abinader, Abinader Organizations: CNN, Dominican Red Cross, RTVD’s Locations: Dominican Republic, Dominican, Villa Valdez, San Cristobal

☆ Blaze engulfs historic ministry building in central Cairo
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Smoke rises as Egyptian firefighters extinguish a fire that broke out in the historic neo-Islamic ministry in central Cairo, Egypt, August 5, 2023. REUTERS/Patrick WerrCAIRO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A historic neo-Islamic ministry in central Cairo was engulfed in flames on Saturday, only days after its employees had moved to premises in a new capital city under construction in the desert 45km east of Cairo. The main part of the building was built in 1898, with wings added on either side in 1912 and 1927. Most of the ministry's employees moved to the new capital, away from the clutter and chaos of Cairo, in late July. Some former ministry buildings are to be repurposed under Egypt's Sovereign Fund, a process the government hopes will draw badly needed investment and help regenerate central Cairo.

Persons: Patrick Werr CAIRO, Patrick Werr, Moamen Saeed Atallah, Aidan Lewis, Giles Elgood Organizations: REUTERS, Religious Endowments, Reuters, Sovereign Fund, Thomson Locations: Cairo, Egypt

☆ More victims recovered from Cambodia casino hotel fire
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

POIPET, Cambodia — The confirmed death toll from a massive fire at a casino hotel complex in western Cambodia rose to 25 on Friday as the search resumed for victims, officials said. The blaze at the Grand Diamond City casino and hotel in the town of Poipet on the Thai border started around midnight Wednesday and was extinguished more than 12 hours later on Thursday afternoon. The Grand Diamond City casino complex has 500 employees, and it had 1,000 customers Wednesday, according to a report from Soth Kimkolmony, a spokesperson for Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management. Many of those inside, both customers and staff, were from neighboring Thailand, which sent firetrucks and emergency workers to help. Khmer Times, a Cambodian English-language news website, quoted Poipet city governor Keat Hul describing the chaos when the fire broke out.

☆ Fire at Cambodian hotel casino kills at least 10
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A fire burning through a Cambodian hotel casino has killed at least 10 people and injured 30 others, police said Thursday, and neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a bustling border region. Videos posted on social media showed people apparently jumping from windows after they were trapped by the fire at the Grand Diamond City Casino and Hotel in the border town of Poipet. Rescue workers lower people to the ground as a fire rages at the Grand Diamond City Casino and Hotel in Poipet. Thai PBS reported that 50 Thais, both staff and customers, were trapped inside the casino complex. It reported that Cambodian authorities requested help to deal with the fire from Thailand, which sent five firetrucks and 10 rescue vans.

☆ Xinjiang Protests of Monthslong Covid Lockdown Erupt After a Deadly Fire
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Wenxin Fan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Firefighters sprayed water on a fire at a residential building in Urumqi on Thursday, in this image taken from a video. China’s Covid-19 restrictions on Friday became the focus of protests in Urumqi, the capital of the remote region of Xinjiang, after a deadly fire enraged city residents who have struggled with lockdowns of more than 100 days. Urumqi officials said 10 people were killed in the fire in a high-rise apartment building Thursday that it took firefighters 150 minutes to contain. Residents flooded social media with comments suggesting Covid-19 restrictions contributed to the delay. Video footage posted online by state-run media showed firetrucks waiting as Covid-related road barriers were removed.

☆ Iranian officials say Tehran prison blaze killed 4 inmates
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

TOPSHOT - This image obtained from the Iranian news agency IRNA on October 16, 2022, shows a fire truck in front of the Evin prison, in the northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran. Families of inmates gathered Sunday near the prison hoping for news of their loved ones inside. Another man, Reza, who also gave only his first name, said his brother has been in Evin Prison since last year after he was involved in a violent quarrel. Iranian social media posts challenged state media claims over the cause of the fire and apparent explosions at the prison. Evin Prison, which holds detainees facing security-related charges and includes dual citizens, has been charged by rights groups with abusing inmates.

☆ This market is not the dot-com crash or the financial crisis. Here's how to play it
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +21 min

The S & P 500 never really got out of control back then — and, relative to bonds, it didn't either. The Fed chairman, correctly, feared the economy was going to crash, and he would have been right. I think that's certainly how people act. I think that most participants have decided there's no hope and they are using an analogue that's 2000-2001 (dot-com bubble bursting) or even 2007 (before the financial crisis and the Great Recession). Autos have been hurt by supply chain but I think that's coming to an end.

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