All posts tagged "Accidentsanddisasters"

A 16-year-old Taylor Swift fan was killed in a car crash on Thursday while she was on her way to Swift’s concert in Melbourne, Australia. Mieka Pokarier was traveling with her mother, Kim, and 10-year-old sister Freya when their SUV was struck by a semitruck, TMZ reported Saturday. All three passengers were injured in the collision, in addition to the driver of the semitruck, but only Mieka’s injuries proved fatal. She was pronounced dead by emergency responders who arrived on the scene, while Freya was airlifted to Sydney’s Westmead Hospital in critical condition and placed in a medically ind......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Union Pacific train carrying 118 tons of coal derailed Sunday due to a track defect and dumped its contents into and around Plumas County’s Feather River, according to railroad officials and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Fifteen rail cars chugging west on tracks parallel to the Middle Fork Feather River in Blairsden derailed, spilling the fuel into the river. At least 14 rail cars tipped over or sustained damage, Fish and Wildlife officials said. At least one rail car fell into the water. “Several cars lost the total payload and some cars partially rele......

PHILADELPHIA — After hours of sifting through the charred remains of an East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, home on Thursday, investigators retrieved three sets of human remains and a rifle — the beginnings of their painstaking search for evidence as they worked to piece together what led a resident of the home to shoot two police officers before setting the house ablaze the day before. It was difficult, “gruesome” work, according to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer. And with frustration, he said that the full scope of what happened inside the ruined home on Wednesday afternoon ma......

PHILADELPHIA — Two police officers were shot Wednesday afternoon in East Lansdowne while responding to reports that an 11-year-old girl had been shot inside a home that later burst into flames. And later Wednesday, as investigators struggled to piece together what led to the shooting, they said that as many as eight members of the family that lived inside the home — children and adults — were unaccounted for. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said the home was still smoldering Wednesday night, preventing investigators from sifting through the ruins. He described the house as ......

When a door-sized section of a 737 MAX 9 fuselage exploded out into the void 16,000 feet over Portland, Boeing's once-solid reputation, already staggered by the two MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, took another heavy blow. The gaping hole that opened up and the violent decompression were terrifying and traumatic for the passengers and crew aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. Though no one died, and air travel still remains by far the safest form of transportation, this close call on a U.S. flight drew intense attention across the nation. Everything points to a mistake in installing and inspecting......

MIAMI — A cloth toy accidentally set ablaze by a child was the catalyst of a much larger inferno that engulfed and destroyed a portion of Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill’s $7 million mansion last week, a new report reveals. The massive blaze was not particularly easy to extinguish either, according to the Davie Fire Rescue Department’s incident report, forcing some firefighters to evacuate for more air and use different plans of attack to douse it. Ultimately, Hill’s mansion incurred $2,342,480 in damages. Hill was at practice in Miami Gardens at the time of the fire. Two children, hi......