Skip to content
Advertisement

Disaster_Accident

Latest Stories

florida_keys-screwworm_infestation.jpeg

florida_keys-screwworm_infestation.jpeg

In this February 2013 file photo, a Key deer forages for food in the National Key Deer Refuge in the Florida Keys. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz, File) **FILE**

dairy_farmers_closures.jpeg

dairy_farmers_closures.jpeg

Farmer Tom Marston, of Pittsfield, N.H., listens during the Milk Producers Emergency Relief Fund Board meeting, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, in Concord, N.H. The board is trying to see what can be done quickly as farmers struggle with low milk prices and drought conditions. Nineteen of the state's 120 dairies have closed in recent months. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

big_12_back_qbs_football.jpeg

big_12_back_qbs_football.jpeg

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2016, file photo, Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury claps after Jonathan Giles scored a touchdown against Stephen F. Austin during an NCAA college football game in Lubbock, Texas. It's time for Big 12 teams to get better prepared to see opposing backup quarterbacks. Texas Tech coach Kingsbury said Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, that the status of FBS total offense leader Patrick Mahomes is day-to-day. Mahomes left last week's 55-game against Kansas after going down hard on his right (throwing) shoulder. (Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP, File)

safety_training.jpeg

safety_training.jpeg

In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, Chuck Clairmont, North Dakota Safety Council executive director, looks over an artis rendering of the new NDSC building in Bismarck, N.D. (Will Kincaid/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

DG016_019DU4d3kneangk23af4flk1a4en5mb__mid.jpg

DG016_019DU4d3kneangk23af4flk1a4en5mb__mid.jpg

The 2016 Dodge Durango has family written all over it. Quite utilitarian, the Durango has a big boy, assertive attitude and one trim even has a V8 engine to back it up. Of course, there is a V6 standard too. This year, a stop-start mechanism has been added to the base trim and higher trim levels have had some impressive standard features added. (Courtesy of Dodge).

cuba_tropical_weather.jpeg

cuba_tropical_weather.jpeg

A woman shutters a window of her house before the arrival of Hurricane Matthew in Santiago, Cuba, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

aptopix_cuba_tropical_weather.jpeg

aptopix_cuba_tropical_weather.jpeg

People arrive with their belongings at a shelter prior the arrival of the Hurricane Matthew in Santiago, Cuba, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

bus_fleet_burned.jpeg

bus_fleet_burned.jpeg

Firefighters work to put out a massive fire that damaged a substantial number" of buses a terminal of Dousman Transport in Hartland on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (Michael Sears/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

cowboys_49ers_football.jpeg

cowboys_49ers_football.jpeg

San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Eli Harold, left, quarterback Colin Kaepernick, center, and safety Eric Reid kneel during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

jamaica_tropical_weather.jpeg

jamaica_tropical_weather.jpeg

Fishermen sail on a boat at Port Royal in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Hurricane Mathew, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

jamaica_tropical_weather_matthew.jpeg

jamaica_tropical_weather_matthew.jpeg

Workers set up a board as protection against hurricane Matthew in an hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Matthew briefly reached the top hurricane classification, Category 5, and was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

aptopix_jamaica_tropical_weather_matthew.jpeg

aptopix_jamaica_tropical_weather_matthew.jpeg

A worker hauls a board to use on a storefront window as protection against hurricane Matthew in Kingston, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it drenched coastal Colombia and roared across the Caribbean on a course that threatened Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Matthew briefly reached the top hurricane classification, Category 5, and was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

young_balloonist.jpeg

young_balloonist.jpeg

In this Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 photo, pilots, crew members and spectators gather at the airfield for the Great Prosser Balloon Rally in Prosser, Wash. McKenna Secrist’s 16th birthday in July came with a hot air balloon pilot’s license instead of a driver’s license. Secrist joined more than a dozen hot air balloon pilots at the Great Prosser Balloon Rally, where they fired up their colorful conveyances at the Prosser Airport. (Shawn Gust/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)

aptopix_louisiana-monroe_auburn_football.jpeg

aptopix_louisiana-monroe_auburn_football.jpeg

Louisiana-Monroe safety Tre' Hunter (4) tries to stop Auburn running back Kerryon Johnson (21) as he dives for the goal line but he comes up short during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 in Auburn, Al. (AP Photo/ Hal Yeager)

louisiana-monroe_auburn_football.jpeg

louisiana-monroe_auburn_football.jpeg

Auburn players mob Auburn defensive lineman Gary Walker (97) in the final seconds of the second half of Auburn's 58-7 win over Louisiana-Monroe in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 in Auburn, Al. Walker Sacked Louisiana-Monroe quarterback Garrett Smith in the end zone for a safety. (AP Photo/ Hal Yeager)

house_explosion_firefigther_funeral.jpeg

house_explosion_firefigther_funeral.jpeg

As his family follows behind, pallbearers carry the casket of New York Fire Department Battalion Chief Michael Fahy at Annunciation Church in Yonkers, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. Fahy died while fighting a fire at suspected marijuana grow house in the Bronx borough of New York on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Frank Becerra Jr./The Journal News via AP)

aptopix_texas_oklahoma_st_football.jpeg

aptopix_texas_oklahoma_st_football.jpeg

Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph (2) dives between Texas safety Dylan Haines (14) and safety Jason Hall (31) to score in the second quarter of an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

south_carolina_floods.jpeg

south_carolina_floods.jpeg

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2015, a couple takes photos as a wave crashes against a wall along The Battery in Charleston, S.C. Nearly a year after 2 feet of rain fell on South Carolina, hundreds of people are still trying to fix their homes. ( (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

marijuana_labs-explosions.jpeg

marijuana_labs-explosions.jpeg

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2016 file photo, emergency service personnel work at the scene of a house explosion in the Bronx borough of New York. The explosion that destroyed a New York City house and killed a firefighter has drawn attention to marijuana-making methods that are legal in some states _ but can also be lethal. Authorities are investigating whether the people who set up an indoor marijuana farm in the house tampered with gas lines or mishandled other materials in ways that caused the explosion.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

octopus_ferry_attack_tall_tale.jpeg

octopus_ferry_attack_tall_tale.jpeg

In this Sept. 29, 2016 photo, artist Joseph Reginella poses for a photo, in the Staten Island borough of New York, with the cast bronze faux monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff, It took Reginella six months to execute his multi-layered project that includes the faux memorial, a sophisticated website complete with a documentary, a mocked-up newspaper articles and glossy fliers directing tourists to a phantom Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum with small pieces of the wreckage on display _ some with "strange suction-cup-shaped marks." (AP Photo/ Ula Ilnytzky )