While Australia battles record-smashing heat, interminable drought and deadly bushfires, the U.S. is in the grip of an intense cold snap, with temperatures plunging to historic lows. Last week, Adelaide broke the record for the world’s hottest city at 46.6C (115.16F) as the American Midwest is currently colder than Antarctica, parts of Alaska, and Siberia. […]
This past Monday, as United States officials were gathering to meet with the Taliban in Doha Qatar to discuss a peace treaty, the insurgent group was executing a deadly attack in Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan killing as many as 100 people. The complex attack against the secure National Directorate for Security (NDS) base in Logar province […]
American soldiers and military contractors were among the dead in two deadly explosive attacks. ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that targeted a popular market place in the city of Manbij, Syria. Manbij a heavily disputed city in northern Syria is currently under protection of the US backed Kurd forces. This apparent suicide bombing […]
This FDNY Pro Talk with Battalion Chief Brian O’Donnell was recorded for the 2018 FDNY Symposium with support from the FDNY Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. In this Talk, Chief O’Donnell reviewed Department operations at a Brooklyn high-rise multiple dwelling fire with victims. About the Presenter Battalion Chief Brian O’Donnell began his career […]
A wave of protests that began in November 2018 over increased fuel taxes, known as the yellow vest (“gilets jaunes”) movement has spread across France, and to other countries, as well. This past week, cities across France had a total of 50,000 protestors, which ranged in mood from peaceful sit-ins, speeches to outright civil unrest. […]
Despite many claims, and jokes, that an intense blue light over Astoria, Queens was the sign of an alien invasion, the cause was more terrestrial as a ConEd transformer at one its substations exploded. There were “scattered” power outages, some subway trains were temporarily stalled and nearby LaGuardia Airport had a brief blackout. Despite the […]
At least 430 people were killed Saturday when a tsunami swept through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, leaving about 1,500 injured and almost 22,000 displaced in villages on the Java and Sumatra coasts. Some affected areas have not been reached yet. Indonesian rescuers are using heavy machinery, sniffer dogs and drones to detect and dig […]
While Australia battles record-smashing heat, interminable drought and deadly bushfires, the U.S. is in the grip of an intense cold snap, with temperatures plunging to historic lows. Last week, Adelaide broke the record for the world’s hottest city at 46.6C (115.16F) as the American Midwest is currently colder than Antarctica, parts of Alaska, and Siberia. […]
This past Monday, as United States officials were gathering to meet with the Taliban in Doha Qatar to discuss a peace treaty, the insurgent group was executing a deadly attack in Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan killing as many as 100 people. The complex attack against the secure National Directorate for Security (NDS) base in Logar province […]
American soldiers and military contractors were among the dead in two deadly explosive attacks. ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that targeted a popular market place in the city of Manbij, Syria. Manbij a heavily disputed city in northern Syria is currently under protection of the US backed Kurd forces. This apparent suicide bombing […]
This FDNY Pro Talk with Battalion Chief Brian O’Donnell was recorded for the 2018 FDNY Symposium with support from the FDNY Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. In this Talk, Chief O’Donnell reviewed Department operations at a Brooklyn high-rise multiple dwelling fire with victims. About the Presenter Battalion Chief Brian O’Donnell began his career […]
A wave of protests that began in November 2018 over increased fuel taxes, known as the yellow vest (“gilets jaunes”) movement has spread across France, and to other countries, as well. This past week, cities across France had a total of 50,000 protestors, which ranged in mood from peaceful sit-ins, speeches to outright civil unrest. […]
Despite many claims, and jokes, that an intense blue light over Astoria, Queens was the sign of an alien invasion, the cause was more terrestrial as a ConEd transformer at one its substations exploded. There were “scattered” power outages, some subway trains were temporarily stalled and nearby LaGuardia Airport had a brief blackout. Despite the […]
At least 430 people were killed Saturday when a tsunami swept through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, leaving about 1,500 injured and almost 22,000 displaced in villages on the Java and Sumatra coasts. Some affected areas have not been reached yet. Indonesian rescuers are using heavy machinery, sniffer dogs and drones to detect and dig […]
