Disaster

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall this week, bringing flash floods that caused at least four fatalities and virtually shut down the city of Dubai.

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.

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. 

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.

The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.

Since Hurricane Joaquin bumped up against a large severe storm system that was already headed to the area, South Carolina has been so inundated with a “thousand-year rain” that coffins are rising to the surface and floating around in cemeteries.

Here are two stories which show how badly we are losing the war against green fundamentalism: The first, courtesy of Christopher Booker, concerns the British government’s attempts to rush through a truly insane plan for a £1 billion tidal lagoon

Californians have been warned for decades that “the big one” could shove the coveted coastline into the sea in the wake of a massive earthquake like the one featured in Vin Diesel’s new disaster flick San Andreas. Now, a new study is pumping statistics into old fears that the threat could come to life.

Nepalese authorities reported Friday that three bodies have been pulled from the remains of a U.S. Marine helicopter in Nepal after search teams discovered the aircraft that had gone missing Tuesday while delivering earthquake relief supplies.

On Saturday night, over 300 homes near Chino Hills by the Prado Dam had to be evacuated because of a brush fire rapidly traveling through the area. Jennifer Fuhrman, a spokeswoman for the Riverside County Fire Department, said the blaze was first reported at just after 6 p.m.

Two towns some 80 miles west of Chicago are struggling to recover from a series of deadly tornados that careened through the area killing two, injuring 20, and leaving dozens of families homeless.