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California’s firefighters had brief respite from tackling 650 different blazes on Tuesday as cooler weather moved in, helping quell some of the worst wildfires in the state’s history. The devastating wildfires sparked by more than 13,000 lightning strikes since mid-August have collectively scorched more than 1.2million acres, an area bigger than the state of Delaware, … Read more
Firefighters raced through raging fires in Napa County Tuesday to save families as more than 30 wildfires scorched more than 120,000 acres across California, PG&E warned of blackouts, and 42 million people were put under heat warnings as temperatures topped 115 degrees. Terrifying footage showed firefighters driving along Berryessa Knoxville Road in Napa on a … Read more
Shocking moment Chinese road suddenly collapses as a lorry gets washed away by raging floodwaters Terrifying footage shows the road alongside a riverbank ripping in half in China A lorry parked on the street is seen falling into the swelling floodwaters below No casualties have been reported from the incident that occurred on Wednesday Comes as regions … Read more
Shocking moment raging ‘Uber’ driver smashes ‘rival’s’ car windows with a crowbar after minor crash on an east London street Row happened in Poplar, east London, and a clip was shared online on August 9 Footage shows one of the drivers holding a metal bar and smashing the windows Clip shows how one driver has … Read more
Escape from HELL: Arctic villagers flee raging wildfires on boats as 35ft flames encircle remote settlement Residents in remote Svatay, northern Russia, fled on the Alazeya River Village is 140 miles above Arctic Circle and has been encircled by fires for weeks Fires fuelled by high winds have wiped out ancient trees and roasted live … Read more
Homeowners who took a shared appreciation mortgage from Bank of Scotland or Barclays in the late 1990s are still waiting for an outcome from legal negotiations that have dragged on for years. A challenge led by law firm Teacher Stern is seeking to secure fairer charges for these borrowers, but pre-action talks are still going … Read more
Ravaging wildfires are burning further north in the Russian Arctic than had previously been recorded from space. Images captured by a satellite have shown an out-of-control inferno just 30 miles from the Arctic Ocean in the Yakutia region. It comes in a summer of unprecedented heat in northern latitudes in Siberia with locals sunbathing, with … Read more
Two cops have described the ‘chilling’ moment they confronted a knifeman who charged at them with an eight-inch blade. PC Hannah Jones and PC Justin Harrold thought they were dealing with a noisy neighbour when they were threatened with the huge kitchen knife. The PCs knocked on the door of Jan Olav Kvaerneng-Stolp only for … Read more
Raging forest infernos in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone burning for eight days are now ‘close’ to exploded nuclear reactor amid new fears of radiation contamination Wildfires burning through Chernobyl forests are nearing the nuclear reactor There are fears that flames could reach radioactive trucks and vehicles abandoned after the notorious 1986 power station explosion Kiev has … Read more
Moment brave female police officer Tasers raging man armed with an oven as she yells: ‘Drop the microwave now!’ Nathan Caine grabbed the microwave and shouted when officers arrived Policewoman used the Taser after he refused to put it down at YMCA in Cardiff South Wales Police has announced plans to invest extra £273,000 in … Read more