Smoke from wildfires in Canada is expected to drift over New York and other Northeastern states on Monday, officials have warned, adding that they were anticipating slight impacts on air quality in some places. Forecasters were expecting plumes of wildfire smoke to reach New York City around sunrise on Monday and leave a visible haze, […]
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As they traversed the harsh, wooded terrain in northeastern Greece, the 18 asylum seekers were presented with an agonizing dilemma: Take the safer route through villages and over highways, but into the arms of the Greek authorities, or travel through the forests and fields being ravaged by Europe’s largest recorded wildfire. They opted for the […]
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The sounds of mourning have coursed through the small Christian town of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq since late Tuesday, when a fire destroyed a wedding hall in the middle of a reception, touching not only this village, but Iraq’s entire Christian community. As of Friday night, at least 119 people were dead and an unknown […]
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A fire swept through a wedding hall late Tuesday in a predominantly Christian area of northern Iraq, killing at least 100 people and leaving more than 150 others injured with severe burns or difficulty breathing from smoke inhalation, according to Iraqi officials. The fire broke out during a wedding in the district of Hamdaniya, southeast […]
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NINEVEH, Iraq — At least 100 people were killed and 150 more injured in a fire at a wedding celebration in the district of Hamdaniya in Iraq’s Nineveh Province, Iraqi state media reported early on Wednesday, with local sources saying the toll was expected to rise. The fire ripped through a large events hall in […]
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As many as 600 people called the squalid five-story building at 80 Albert Street in downtown Johannesburg home. Nearly three weeks after a fire tore through the building, leaving at least 77 people dead, survivors recall those they lost and the workaday family lives they led inside a trash-strewn building that had no heat, and […]
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Why It Matters The trade-in program follows a spate of lithium-ion battery fires that have killed 14 people in New York City this year alone and injured more than 100 others. There have been 180 lithium battery fires through Sept. 11. The new trade-in program is in addition to the city’s other efforts to prevent […]
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A fire broke out at a nine-story apartment tower in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday night, resulting in more than 50 casualties, the country’s state-run news media said. Hanoi officials announced the figure, which includes dead and injured, hours after the blaze in a central district of the capital, the Dan Tri newspaper reported on Wednesday […]
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Two days after escaping a roaring blaze by slithering down a curtain with his 15-month-old daughter strapped to his chest, and hours after burying two fellow Malawians who didn’t survive, Yasini Kumbasa was stopped in downtown Johannesburg by police officers demanding to see his passport. He’d lost just about everything in the fire, but the […]
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