(FOX40.COM) — A wildfire near the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site has caused the San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services to issue an evacuation order. On Saturday, just before 6 p.m., the agency said residents near Coral Hollow Road should leave immediately. This includes the area east of Interstate 580 between Coral Hollow Road […]
Crews battled the Bear Fire on Tuesday in southeastern Arizona as it burned 131 acres, prompting a pre-evacuation status for nearby communities. The fire was first reported around 3:45 p.m., burning grass and brush about 18 miles east of Benson and 21 miles south of Dragoon in wilderness near Mt. Glenn, according to the Arizona […]
Santa Barbara County has issued an evacuation warning for residents in eastern Santa Barbara County as a hillside wildfire burned hundreds of acres in the area. The fire began around 12 p.m. southeast of New Cuyama near the intersection of Kirschenmenn Road and Foothill Road with a “moderate rate of spread,” Santa Barbara County Fire […]
A Harris Teeter was evacuated Monday evening when paper towels caught fire inside one of the grocery store’s aisles, Charlotte Fire said. It happened just before 5:30 p.m. at the store on Smith Farm Road in northwest Charlotte. ALSO READ: Harris Teeter brings back free cookies A Charlotte Fire spokesperson said the building was already […]
By Tim Reid and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican National Committee’s headquarters in Washington was briefly evacuated on Wednesday morning after a suspicious package containing two vials of blood was delivered to the building, the police and the RNC said. RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said the vials of blood were sent to the organization’s […]
Australia and New Zealand said they will send government planes to New Caledonia on Tuesday to evacuate nationals from the French territory which has experienced a week of deadly riots, sparked by electoral changes by the French government in Paris. France’s High Commission in New Caledonia said on Tuesday the airport remains closed for commercial flights, and it will […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Newly-released satellite photos reviewed by the Associated Press show a large exodus of Palestinians from the southernmost Gaza city of Rafah earlier this month ahead of a feared Israeli ground invasion there. The photos taken three days apart — first on May 5 and then on May 8 — show the change […]
More than three-quarters of Gaza’s territory have been designated as evacuation zones by the Israeli military since the war against Hamas began in October, an analysis by BBC Arabic has found. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has issued evacuation orders to Gazans since Israel launched a military campaign on 7 October in response to a […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday morning as a potential ground assault in Rafah looms and as negotiations over a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel moved closer to an agreement A little while after their call, Hamas announced that it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal. Israel […]
The Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas has sharply criticized the start of Israel’s evacuation of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, ahead of a military operation. Israel is damaging all efforts to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Mahmoud Mardawi, a senior Hamas official, told dpa on Monday. The move would have […]
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday started to evacuate the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip ahead of its expected military operation there. “We begin a limited scope operation to temporarily evacuate inhabitants of eastern Rafah,” an IDF spokesman said. The IDF called on the inhabitants of the eastern part of the […]
The Israeli military has asked residents of eastern Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, to evacuate to an “expanded humanitarian area,” ahead of a possible offensive. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it “encourages” the residents of Eastern Rafah to move to an expanded humanitarian area in the al-Mawasi refugee camp, on the Mediterranean […]