Disaster

Officials in Kendall County, Texas, report the rescue of two girls who went missing during the Independence Day weekend flooding in the Texas Hill Country. Rescuers found the girls 30 feet up in a tree along the Guadalupe River.

News reports indicate that the number of people who are confirmed to have died in the Independence Day weekend flooding reached nearly 70. The search for 11 missing girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic and others continues.

In what is being described as a miracle in the Independence Day Flood, a Texas man led rescuers to a woman who managed to climb into a tree after being swept 20 miles downstream in the raging Guadalupe River. The swiftly moving currents swept a vehicle carrying the woman and her parents off a low-water crossing.

The death toll across Texas climbed to 51 by Saturday evening as officials continue the search for approximately 25 girls who went missing during the Independence Day Flood. The flooding occurred Friday morning in a popular children’s camp area near Kerrville, Texas, and killed at least 15 children, officials stated.

The nation’s pro-migration border chief wants Congress to provide extra disaster aid for hurricane-hammered Americans — after he used hundreds of millions of dollars to inflict his own migration disaster on Americans, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI), told Breitbart News.

Four stadiums in America have been tapped to serve as safe places and shelters when communities are afflicted by disaster.

Spain’s Police gave details on four people killed when a building housing a bar and restaurant club collapsed on the island of Mallorca.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers put out a “tentative timeline” for getting commercial shipping in and out of Baltimore by the end of the month.

A temporary channel marked with buoys to allow small amount of priority traffic to go in and out, the first step in a “phased” reopening.

Work crews have started removing the collapsed Patapsco bridge, cutting through the enormous steel girders to load parts onto waiting barges.

“The largest crane on the East Coast ” has arrived in Baltimore to start clearing away the twisted wreckage of the Scott Key Bridge.

It is thought the four remaining victims may now be entombed in vehicles below the wreckage of the bridge.

National Transportation Safety Board officials have boarded the MV Dali and divers continue to seek victims of the collapse.

Crews are searching for the people who fell into the water after a ship hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse.

The Governor of Maryland has revealed there was enough time for traffic to be blocked from driving onto it, saving lives. 

The large I-695 over the Patapsco River has collapsed after being hit by a cargo ship, sending vehicles tumbling into the water. 

Authorities on Wednesday broke off their search for four crew members missing, a senior official saying there was no longer hope for them.

Two dozen people, many of them schoolchildren, were injured when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in a southern Finnish city.

A decorative helicopter fell into a pool inside the American Dream Mall in New Jersey, injuring four people.

A large fire has broken out following an explosion at what appears to be a soybean crushing plant in Iowa, according to property records. 

Police in the Indian state of Gujarat arrested nine people Monday in connection with the collapse of the pedestrian suspension bridge in the town of Morbi, which collapsed on Sunday, sending its many occupants tumbling over 30 feet into the fast-moving Machchhu river. The official death toll from the catastrophe stands at 135, but the search for more bodies continues.

Airbus, Air France go on trial on manslaughter charges for the crash of a Rio-Paris flight that plunged into the Atlantic amid thunderstorms.

The United Kingdom’s need to import food from abroad could prove extremely detrimental in the event of global disaster.

New explosions rocked a coal mine in southern Poland Thursday, injuring 10 rescuers who were preparing to search for seven missing people.

Chinese state media wasted no time scoring political points off the horrific collapse of Champlain Towers South in Miami, Florida. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) exploited the 11 confirmed deaths and 150 missing people to claim it “shows how the U.S. treats lives with indifference.”

At least 44 were crushed to death during a stampede at a bonfire celebrating the Jewish holiday of Lag b’Omer in Israel early on Friday morning, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “terrible disaster.”

During the dive, a large hole in the hull of the ferry was spotted, raising questions about the cause of the sinking.

The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed on Nov. 9, 2016 — the day Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election — in which the author called for Baltimore to be declared a disaster, and rebuilt.

This Brexit is a dog’s breakfast of a cock-up of a disaster of a fiasco.

Police have slammed the “long line of Grenfell-related frauds” as another fraudster who took advantage of the tragedy is convicted of “shamelessly” taking money intended for victims.

Former Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Tevi Troy told Breitbart News: Sunday Edition that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had actually done an even better job managing Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico than it had in dealing with Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida recently.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump detailed their personal donation of $1 million to the Hurricane Harvey relief effort to a dozen different charities.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A tree crashed down on a popular religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira on Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring 52 others, officials said.

The initial run of Megyn Kelly’s Sunday newsmagazine show will reportedly be taken off the air at least two episodes earlier than scheduled because of her disastrous ratings.

President Donald Trump approved a declaration of a “major disaster” in California over the weekend, freeing up federal funds for flood relief in several rural counties in response to requests from Governor Jerry Brown and local residents.

Officials are releasing water from the Oroville Dam, the nation’s highest, at the astonishing rate of 100,000 cubic feet per second, with the goal of lowering the lake’s elevation by 50 feet before a week of rain and snow hits the region Wednesday.