This video shows a fire at a Mobil Gas Station and adjacent Burger King in Iron Mountain, Michigan. Two firefighters were injured in the process. Flames can be seen coming out of the roof, and the front of the building collapsed, crushing one of the firefighters beneath it. His fellow firefighters can be seen making […]
A broken rail caused a train derailment that collapsed a bridge over an interstate highway in Colorado, killing a truck driver and blocking the road for days, federal authorities said Tuesday based on their preliminary findings. Investigators are examining how the rail broke and why warning systems did not alert crews to the condition of […]
At least 11 people were killed when the roof of a middle school gymnasium collapsed in northern China, authorities said. The incident occurred in the city of Qiqihar on July 23, and the last trapped student was pulled from the wreckage without vital signs on July 24, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The cause is […]
MIAMI—The swimming pool deck of a beachfront South Florida condominium that collapsed two years ago, killing 98 people, failed to comply with the original building codes and standards, with many areas of severe strength deficiency, federal investigators said Thursday. Investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology gave an update on the collapse of […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Three construction workers were killed and two others were hurt on Monday when scaffolding collapsed in an industrial accident at a job site in Charlotte, North Carolina, authorities said. The scaffolding collapsed just after 9 a.m. at a construction site on East Morehead Street, sending several construction workers falling about 70 feet, Fire Capt. […]
MORBI, India—Police in western India arrested nine people on Monday as they investigated the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge in one of the country’s worst accidents in years, officials said. The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134. As families mourned the […]
Want to cook chicken in NyQuil? Overdose on antihistamines? Swallow laundry detergent pods? While most of us would recoil in horror from such dangerous suggestions, adolescents and young adults continue to be susceptible to social media dares like these, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. “One social media trend relying on peer pressure […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—A wooden bridge over a river in southern Norway collapsed early Monday, with a car plunging into the water and a truck getting stuck on a raised section. The drivers of both vehicles were rescued and doing well, police said. Police were alerted shortly after 7:30 a.m. (0530 GMT; 1:30 a.m. EDT) that the […]
A team volunteering to help patrol the southern border encountered a large group of illegal immigrants. They attempted to reunite a lost young girl with her father, but he collapsed before he could see her. Warning: Some of the following footage may be disturbing.
SALT LAKE CITY—A 13-year-old Utah boy died from his injuries a day after a sand dune he was digging in collapsed and buried him at a state park, officials said Monday. The boy had been digging a tunnel into the dune at southern Utah’s Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park when it collapsed on him […]
A Florida man with no flying experience who kept his cool while landing a small plane says “the hand of God” was with him after the pilot collapsed at the controls. Darren Harrison told NBC’s “Today” show that he was relaxing with his feet up in the back of the single-engine Cessna after a fishing […]
LAGOS, Nigeria—A 21-story apartment building under construction collapsed in an upscale area of Nigeria’s largest city, killing at least six people and leaving dozens more missing. Lagos Police Commissioner Hakeem Odumosu confirmed the deaths, but added that three survivors had been pulled from the rubble in Ikoyi by Monday evening. Officials arriving at the scene […]
New video footage of investigators working at the condominium building that collapsed in Florida in June, killing 98, shows structural issues, according to experts. The footage was released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the federal agency announced it would launch a technical probe into the collapse of the building, which […]
MIAMI—A private bidder is willing to offer up to $120 million to purchase the Miami-area oceanfront property where the collapsed Champlain Towers South building once stood. The offer was revealed Wednesday during a hearing before Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman, who is overseeing the dozens of lawsuits that have been filed since the condominium collapsed on […]
Erick de Moura expected to be in his Champlain Towers South condo at the time much of it collapsed. The only reason he wasn’t: His girlfriend persuaded him to stay with her. De Moura and his girlfriend, Fernanda Figueiredo, say they believe he is alive because he was not in his unit in the building […]
The death toll from the collapse of a condominium tower near Miami, Florida, has risen to nine, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday. Meanwhile officials released a report from 2018 that included a warning from an engineer about “major structural damage” and the tower needing $9 million in repairs. More than 150 people remain […]
Dozens of condominiums in a Surfside, Florida, residential tower were destroyed when part of the building collapsed early Thursday. At least one person was killed, Mayor Charles Burkett said, and 99 people were unaccounted for as of Thursday mid-afternoon, the Miami-Dade Police Department said. A search-and-rescue operation is underway after one side of the building […]
