Tag: Evacuations
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San Juan floodwaters hit 55-year high, forcing evacuations, schools closure in Pagosa Springs
Floodwaters in the San Juan River hit a 55-year high as heavy rains pummeled Archuleta County early on Tuesday morning, prompting both road and school closures in Pagosa Springs. The river’s 12.82-foot swell — reached around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday — is the highest water level the river has hit in the town since 1970, a…
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Israeli strikes kill more than 40 people in Gaza, say health officials, ahead of UN meeting
Health officials say Israeli strikes in Gaza City overnight and at a refugee camp have killed more than 40 people, including 19 women and children
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Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza City as some countries prepare to recognize Palestinian state
Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, according to health officials
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Thousands evacuated in Hong Kong after discovery of large WWII-era bomb
Authorities in Hong Kong have evacuated thousands after discovering a large undetonated World War II-era bomb
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After unequal Helene evacuations, is Western North Carolina better prepared for the next lethal storm?
Natasha Vidal was never told to evacuate before Hurricane Helene roared into Yancey County, North Carolina, last September. She and many others should have been, she says. Fewer people might have suffered and died. “I made a video to my kids in case they found me dead. That’s how bad it was,” she said nearly…
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Israeli troops press forward into Gaza City as more Palestinians flee and death toll passes 65,000
Israeli troops and tanks are pushing deeper into Gaza City as more people flee the devastated area
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US, South Korea and Japan open joint air and naval exercise
The United States, South Korea and Japan have begun an air and naval exercise off a South Korean island in their latest joint drill condemned by North Korea as a “reckless show of strength.”
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Evacuations of CU Boulder’s Norlin Library, nearby buildings lifted; bomb threat false, police say
Sep. 12—Evacuations have been lifted at the University of Colorado Boulder, and most buildings have reopened, after university police determined a bomb threat was false. At 1:14 p.m., evacuations were lifted Norlin Library, the Ketchum Arts and Sciences building and the Ramaley Biology building, according to a social media post from the University of Colorado…
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Evacuations of CU Boulder’s Norlin Library, nearby buildings lifted; bomb threat false, police say
Sep. 12—Evacuations have been lifted at the University of Colorado Boulder, and most buildings have reopened, after university police determined a bomb threat was false. At 1:14 p.m., evacuations were lifted Norlin Library, the Ketchum Arts and Sciences building and the Ramaley Biology building, according to a social media post from the University of Colorado…
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Meth burn by FBI smokes out Montana animal shelter
Workers at a Montana animal shelter were evacuated and sent to the hospital after smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine incinerated by FBI agents started to fill the building