BOISE, Idaho—A hangar under construction on the grounds of the airport in Boise, Idaho, collapsed Wednesday, killing three people and injuring another nine, officials said. Five of those injured in the collapse at the Boise Airport are in critical condition, the city said in a statement released Wednesday night. Authorities responded at about 5 p.m. […]
A small jet that crashed into a building in Connecticut in 2021, killing four people, was going slower than usual as it took off because the pilot had left a parking brake on, according to a report released Thursday. The failure to release the brake was the probable cause of the accident, according to the […]
A fire in a commercial building south of Benin’s capital has killed at least 35 people, authorities said, as they started an investigation. The gutted and burned ruins of a building in Seme-Podji, 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of the capital Porto-Novo, and the charred remains of cars and motorcycles was all that could be […]
DAVENPORT, Iowa—The owner of an Iowa apartment building that collapsed in May, killing three people, has filed a lawsuit that blames an engineering company for not warning the building was structurally unsound and that residents should be evacuated. Real estate owner Andrew Wold filed the lawsuit last week against Select Structural Engineering, more than three […]
DENVER—An explosion caused a multifamily house in Denver to partially collapse, sending one person to the hospital with minor injuries, authorities said. Natural gas was the suspected cause of the blast, the Denver Fire Department said Friday. Officials continued to investigate. The Thursday evening explosion didn’t trigger a fire but turned the building’s lawn and […]
DAVENPORT, Iowa—Iowa’s health agency has determined that the deaths of three men crushed in the collapse of a downtown Davenport building were accidental. The finding released Monday by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services declared the deaths of 42-year-old Branden Colvin Sr., 51-year-old Ryan Hitchcock, and 60-year-old Daniel Prien as accidental. All had […]
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.—A fire has caused heavy damage Friday morning to a building that houses the Bowling Green office of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) as well as a local law firm. Fire crews were called to the building on State Street around 2 a.m. Friday and found a heavy blaze that required additional units, […]
CAIRO—A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least nine people dead, authorities said, as rescuers searched through the rubble. Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a lack of maintenance are widespread in shantytowns, poor city neighborhoods, and rural areas. The state-run MENA news agency […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—An apartment building condemned for more than a decade but used by homeless people collapsed in Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco, killing 14 people, including six children, firefighters reported Saturday. The building in Recife’s Paulista suburb crumbled in the early hours of Friday, prompting a frantic search for victims. Searchers combed through the […]
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.— In less than a year, Gan Jing World, a new social media platform, has built a solid infrastructure with its own data center and cloud server to facilitate a censorship-free experience, according to the company’s executive vice president of technology James Qiu. Gan Jing means clean, and the platform is committed to providing […]
A building under construction partially collapsed Friday in New Haven, Connecticut, when a concrete pour went awry, injuring eight workers, including two critically, city officials said, adding there were no fatalities. City firefighters and other authorities were called to Lafayette Street shortly after 12:30 p.m. “Our units responded immediately within minutes and found several persons […]
DES MOINES, Iowa—An Iowa task force has completed its search for survivors at the site of a partially collapsed Davenport apartment building without finding three missing people who are feared dead, authorities said Friday. The focus has shifted to shoring up the structure so recovery efforts can begin. The remains of the six-story apartment building […]
Officials in Iowa are making plans to demolish a six-story apartment building a day after it partially collapsed, injuring at least one person and displacing countless residents and business owners. No fatalities have been reported. City officials in Davenport, a city in eastern Iowa, said in a news release that the property owner was served […]
LEXINGTON, N.C.—A missing 13-year-old Texas girl was found locked in an outbuilding near a North Carolina home, authorities said Monday. Investigators with the Dallas police and the FBI say a 34-year-old man enticed the girl to leave her home while communicating with her on social media, then picked her up in his vehicle, Sheriff Richie […]
BOSTON—Human remains found at a Boston apartment building earlier this month are those of four infants, police said. The remains are of two boys and two girls, Boston police said in a statement posted on the department’s website Monday. No arrests have been announced and an investigation is ongoing. Officers originally responded to the building […]
NAIROBI, Kenya—A multi-story building collapsed outside Kenya’s capital Monday, killing a woman and two children, and rescuers picked through the debris in search of a family reported missing. Four people were rescued, including a child, after the collapse in Kirigiti, said Kiambu county Gov. Kimani Wamatangi. But “we know that there is a man and […]
CHICAGO—Eight people were rushed to hospitals after being injured when an explosion Tuesday tore through the top floor of a Chicago apartment building, officials said. The explosion at the 36-unit, four-story apartment building in the South Austin neighborhood occurred at about 9 a.m., officials said. Chicago Fire Department Deputy Chief Marc Ferman told reporters a […]
AMMAN, Jordan—Jordanian teams on Wednesday rescued an infant and were working to save others from the rubble of a collapsed building, as officials said they had arrested three people in connection to the disaster. State media said at least nine people were killed and others remained missing Wednesday, a day after the four-story building collapsed […]
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PHILADELPHIA—A building caught fire and later collapsed in Philadelphia, killing one firefighter and injuring five other people, two critically, after all became trapped early Saturday, authorities said. The fire was reported just before 2 a.m. Saturday in the building in north Philadelphia, eight occupants were safely evacuated and the fire had been declared under control, […]
