disasters
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Report: String Of Massive Blazes At Sea Worrying Shipping Industry
International shipping concerns are worried about a wave of major nautical blazes that have resulted in death and injury among crew as well as damage to ships and cargo running in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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Firefighters Safely Rescue Riders After Skyscraper Elevator Falls 84 Floors
An express elevator in a Chicago building formerly called the John Hancock Center until earlier this year, the 100-story tower at 875 North Michigan Avenue that is the fourth-tallest skyscraper in the city, fell from the Signature Room restaurant on its 95th floor all the way down to the 11th on Nov. 17th due to…
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Catastrophic Escalator Failure In Rome Sends Crowd Speeding To Bottom, With 20 Injuries Reported
At least 20 people, many of them Russian fans on their way to attend a Champions League soccer match between AS Roma and CSKA Moscow, were injured after an escalator in the metro station at Rome’s Piazza Repubblica went haywire, CNN International reported today.
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Flames Engulf Brazil’s National Museum, Destroying Massive Cultural And Scientific Collection
Eleven thousand years’ worth of artefacts went up in smoke as the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro — one of the largest collections in the Americas — burned down in a massive firestorm on Sunday night local time.