Race to save lives and ancient artefacts in South Korea as wildfires rage ~enviro Article 631 words 8 votes
New fire maps put nearly four million Californians in hazardous zones ~enviro Article 1722 words 19 votes
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport closed after a military helicopter collides with a landing regional jet ~transport Article 96 words 51 votes
Some residents say they were in the dark as Los Angeles fires spread with no evacuation order ~enviro Article 1253 words 9 votes
Did a private equity fire truck industry consolidation worsen the Los Angeles fires? ~enviro Link 15 votes
What's in the pink flame retardant planes are dropping on the LA fires? ~enviro Article 482 words 11 votes
Drone collides with firefighting aircraft over Palisades fire, in Los Angeles, Federal Aviation Administration says ~transport Article 750 words 23 votes
Physical protective barriers have been built to hold back avalanches – but Svalbard has also turned to tech, with the help of a telecom firm and the University of Svalbard ~enviro climate change Video 4:40, published Dec 15 2024 4 votes
Russia launches a rescue operation after a storm damages two oil tankers in the Kerch Strait ~enviro Article 192 words 12 votes
Missing camper found safe after more than five weeks in Canada's Northern Rockies ~news canada.bc Article 326 words 28 votes
Domestic abuse experts to be embedded in emergency response control rooms in England and Wales ~health Article 698 words 11 votes
Office retreat gone awry: Worker rescued after allegedly left stranded on Colorado mountain by colleagues ~life work Article 705 words 38 votes
An American archaeologist has died after the replica boat she was sailing in capsized in rough seas during an expedition from the Faroe Islands to Norway ~transport Article 353 words 15 votes
An American man has died in south Iceland after ice collapsed while he was on a group tour to a glacier ~enviro Article 197 words 22 votes
Firefighters in Canada battle to save Jasper's buildings, infrastructure as wildfire engulfs town ~enviro Article 595 words 23 votes
Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals ~health healthcare Article published May 10 2024 17 votes
US senior homes refuse to pick up fallen residents, dial 911. ‘Why are they calling us?’ ~health Article 109 words 40 votes
Long untouchable, fire departments are causing death and homelessness in American cities by advocating for bad policies ~transport Article 2318 words 28 votes
Planes collide and catch fire at Japan’s busy Haneda airport, killing five. Hundreds evacuated safely. ~transport Article 324 words 26 votes
Join me on an exclusive tour of two remarkable fire stations in Columbus, Indiana ~design architecture Video 13:04 3 votes
Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the ocean ~news usa.fl crime Article 1149 words 46 votes
Greece gripped by wildfires, national park threatened along with people and towns ~enviro Article 26 votes
How a five-person team saved a dying woman on a sailboat in the Pacific Ocean ~life Article 1352 words 22 votes
When help shows up after a house fire, it might be gang members ~life Article 1182 words, published Aug 3 2023 19 votes
It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships ~humanities.history Article 1046 words 10 votes
Freedom House Ambulance Service - a history of the USA's first paramedics ~health healthcare Link 11 votes
Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out. ~enviro climate change pollution.air Article 25 votes
British born entrepreneur and inventor Richard Browning is in Norway to test his new jet suit in the country's rough and mountainous terrain ~tech Video 1:06 6 votes
US Coast Guard to have a press conference to discuss the apparent debris field of uncertain origin found near the Titanic at 3pm EST ~transport Article 172 words 42 votes
Mystery divers rescued near Polish energy sites in the middle of the night offer dubious explanation, and vanish ~enviro energy Article 656 words 12 votes
Norwegian skier fails in bid to slalom 40km around Covid quarantine rules – bad weather foils attempt to cross over mountains from Sweden ~health Article 252 words 5 votes
Private firefighting crews in California spark conflict after alleged illegal backfires in Glass Fire ~enviro Article 1146 words 4 votes
Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet in the field ~tech internet.satellite Article 1051 words 8 votes
Airbnb asks its US hosts to provide 100,000 free rentals to first responders ~health healthcare Article 6 votes
Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago ~enviro Article 198 words, published Jul 28 2018 6 votes
Two Czech climbers in their forties lost their lives last week at Norway's well-known Trollveggen rock face in western Norway ~hobbies Article 491 words 7 votes
It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand ~health medicine Article 572 words 7 votes
Record numbers rescued from Norway's iconic tourist site Preikestolen ~travel Article 524 words 5 votes
I'm a paramedic, please stop asking me about the worst thing I've ever seen ~life work Article 1201 words 21 votes
‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says ~news usa politics Article 1012 words 34 votes
Losing Laura - Laura Levis died from an asthma attack just outside a Boston-area ER, after calling 911 from outside its locked doors. Her husband has been piecing together how it happened. ~health healthcare Article 11 881 words 9 votes