SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico is setting up a tsunami alert system in densely populated San Juan. San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini says experts wa...
AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 12.13.2011
WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia's emergency management agency is making changes to the way it alerts the public about emergencies and will like...
Jessica DuLong | Posted 11.13.2011
In the aftermath of an inconceivable assault, New York's ferryboat captains, tug crews, dinner-boat and sailing-yacht operators and other mariners stepped in, spontaneously, to provide invaluable, irreplaceable assistance.
Jim Hill | Posted 11.07.2011
In several of the books that have since been written about 9/11, it's noted that the Walt Disney Company quickly closed its stateside theme parks that day. Reportedly out of concern that the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts might also be on the terrorists' target list.
AP | Posted 09.27.2011
LITTLEROCK, Calif. — People living near the site of a freight train derailment in rural northern Los Angeles County were allowed back in their h...
Posted 08.08.2011
The massive wildfire raging across eastern Arizona is a vivid reminder of how suddenly and rapidly fires can erupt and take over this time of year. As...
AP/The Huffington Post | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.06.2011
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) -- Stiff winds whipped up a gigantic blaze in the mountains of eastern Arizona on Monday, forcing the evacuation of a third ...
CP | Posted 08.05.2011
THE CANADIAN PRESS -- ST-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Que. -- Quebec's once-in-a-century floods that have forced hundreds from their homes are transforming som...
Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time for the State Department to permanently change its policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families -- no matter how many legs they have -- to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Jeff Hart was drilling water wells for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan when he got the call to fly...
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — New York City police evacuated part of an apartment building and blocked off some streets near Manhattan's Union Square after a Thurs...
AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 05.25.2011
OGDEN, Utah — A suspicious substance found at an IRS building in Ogden, Utah, on Monday is not hazardous, an official with the U.S. Postal Inspe...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WIND GAP, Pa. — A tractor-trailer carrying a dangerous acid overturned on a highway Saturday, prompting authorities to order thousands of reside...
Peter Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
Having since found out about friends who lost their homes, and seen the destruction in their neighborhoods, it feels somewhat inappropriate to communicate our good fortune.
AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 05.25.2011
HOUSTON — Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the h...
Sheri Fink | Posted 05.25.2011
Cross-posted with ProPublica As Hurricane Gustav approached the southern Louisiana coastline late last month, an estimated 10,000 hospital, nursing h...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
An out-of-control wildfire raged through the San Bernardino National Forest on Sunday, keeping about 5,000 people from their homes in two mountain com...
AP | Posted 01.16.2012