Tag: Evacuations

Rescuers have evacuated all crew from a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka as a fire onboard intensified and two people were injured, a spokesman for the Sri ...

NEW DELHI — A powerful cyclone roaring in the Arabian Sea was moving toward India’s western coast on Monday as authorities tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people and ...

A freight train derailed in a fiery, smoke-filled crash in Iowa on Sunday, leading authorities to order an evacuation of the area. Residents in a 5-mile radius were told to ...

A Rhode Island medical manufacturing facility was evacuated Thursday afternoon after about 30 workers were exposed to a chemical release. A HazMat response was staged outside ZOLL Medical Corp/Bio-Detek in ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An explosive eruption rocked La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Friday following mandatory evacuation orders from the local government. ...

A volcanic eruption rocked the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent on Friday for the first time in over 40 years – prompting the evacuation of thousands of people, according to ...

Fears of an imminent volcanic eruption led to mandatory evacuations on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Thursday. Cruise lines were expected to arrive at the island on Thursday ...

Hundreds of Tampa Bay area residents were allowed back into their homes Tuesday, as crews shored up a containment wall around a leaky wastewater reservoir. The lifted evacuation orders came ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Steam and lava spurted Monday from a new fissure at an Icelandic volcano that began erupting last month, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of hikers who had ...

The imminent collapse of a wastewater reservoir near Tampa, Fla., could unleash a 20-foot “wall of water,” state officials warned Sunday — as they urged residents in the potential flood’s ...