Maui County filed a lawsuit today against wireless service providers for not notifying them of network outages while emergency management officials tried to send evacuation alerts during the Aug. 8 wildfires that killed at least 101 people.
Missing Maui Emergency Management Agency documents make it “difficult to make a complete and accurate accounting” of activities inside the Emergency Operations Center on Aug. 8 when fires killed 101 people, burned 6,721 acres and left 8,000 people homeless, according to the state attorney general.
Maui County officials are pushing back and offering clarifications after the Hawaii attorney general's office released a report that flagged communications issues in the response to the deadly August wildfire
Some forest fire activity in northwestern Ontario this week. Crews with the
Fervent honking began just before 4 a.m. from drivers passing along Santa Fe Avenue in Huntington Park who witnessed one of the city's two fire stations burning. Neighbors living nearby banged on the door of the two-story office and dormitory as the adjacent garage was engulfed in flames. They were trying to alert sleeping firefighters to a blaze in their own building. Eventually, crews from Huntington Park's Fire Station No. 164 descended from their second-story living quarters, some in shorts,...
Officials said they continue responding to a 1000% increase in overdose calls after responding to more than 30 “suspected overdoses” and four deaths on Monday, City of Austin Chief Medi
GREENWOOD, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - An update from the Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department on the gas plant after the fire earlier this week. The Greenwood VFD and the Midland TX Fire Department Station Two were out on the gas plant in Greenwood Thursday afternoon, the 19th, for four hours for final Fire Suppression, you can see []
Paramount Global’s board of directors is reportedly weighing a move to oust CEO Bob Bakish and replace him on an interim basis with a committee of top executives ahead of the company’s first-quarter earnings call later today.
The official cause of Cara Delevingne's late March house fire has been ruled 'undetermined' by the Los Angeles Fire Department. It comes after the 31-year-old model's parents had previously pointed to an electrical issue. Despite weeks of investigation by the arson squad, the extensive damage made it difficult to determine the cause and the case has now officially been closed. Delevingne was out of the country at the time of the March 15 inferno
PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fire destroyed several sheds and outbuildings in Prineville Wednesday afternoon, but Crook County Fire and Rescue crews were able to control the blaze before it reached a nearby triplex, an official said. Firefighters were called around 2:20 p.m. to the fire in the 400 block of NE 5 ½ Street,
US stocks endured a difficult week with technology stocks and small caps particularly in the firing line amid disappointing news from the chip sector, escalating tensions in the Middle East and th