Green told NBC News' Lester Holt on Friday that Lahaina is located in a "very remote place" and Hurricane Dora knocked out telecommunications and essentially rendered the island dark at that night. "I'm very reluctant to blame anyone," he said. "We were fighting multiple fires that were be...
That higher figure, if it stands, represents 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population in the 1860s. If a similar war were fought today, it would claim more than 7 million American lives. The death and suffering inflicted by the Civil War is unequaled in U.S. military history. ...
When a historic fire roared over more than 3 million acres in Montana, Idaho and Washington, the US Forest Service called for suppressing all fires. Read more The St. Francis Dam Collapse: Los Angeles’ Forgotten Disaster When it opened in 1926, the St. Francis Dam was an engineering marv...
Police said they suspect some of the fires were setdeliberately7, and have declared some sites in the fire zone as crime scenes. If that is the case, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Monday, "there are no words to describe it other than mass murder." On Sunday, temperatures in the area ...
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" the deadliest animal in recorded history.One part pulse-pounding thriller, one part soulful natural history of the endangered Royal Bengal tiger, No Beast So Fierce is Dane Huckelbridge’s gripping nonfiction account of the Champawat tiger, which terrified northern India and Nepal from 1900 to ...
Because there’s nothing more pure and beautiful than that act- and the fact that that resulted in the largest mass shooting in American history leaves me heartbroken. I used to LIVE there. I hope we can wake up and realize we are ALL THE SAME. Just huma...
The earthquake lasted roughly five minutes and hundreds of homes collapsed, igniting numerous fires across the city that rapidly spread out of control. The high winds fanned the flames, which soon morphed into a firestorm, engulfing the entire Tokyo metro area. There was nowhere for anybody to ...
Gayner ran in the direction of the large fires illuminating downtown. It was now just before 9 p.m. By this time, Paul Nelson, who had been pelted with red mud from Experimental Lake as he rode his bike home, had gotten into the bathtub to scrub the strange mud off when there was...
So there was a doctor from Chicago that had been in the plane and he was down below and he said, ‘Jump, I’ll catch you.’” As she looked around, Feathers said, “I could tell that there was a lot of these little fires that were getting bigger, so I kept running. And it ...