(PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo.) — Multiple agencies responded to a fire that claimed several structures near Lake Pueblo State Park on Tuesday evening, July 2. According to the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), its emergency services team, West Park Fire Department, Pueblo West Fire Department, and the Beulah Fire Protection and Ambulance District responded on Tuesday […]
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — A “structure/brush fire” sparked near Center Street in the town of Central — in Washington County — on Sunday afternoon. According to Utah Fire Info, the fire was discovered just before 4 p.m. and had spread to about 10 to 15 acres around 5 p.m. READ NEXT: Little Twist Fire […]
Bored to Floored The remarkable James Webb Space Telescope has been used to image the furthest reaches of the cosmos. But in a change of pace, astronomers have leveraged its immense powers on a target far closer to home: the mighty planet Jupiter — and in so doing, they’ve found mysterious features and structures on […]
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill — the architecture firm behind the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building — is aiming to turn skyscrapers into batteries, according to Interesting Engineering. The firm has partnered with battery energy storage company Energy Vault to design sustainable building architectures that aim to accelerate carbon payback, the estimated time sustainable energy […]
More than 500 structures have been damaged in New Mexico wildfires that forced the evacuation of an entire town of more than 7,000 people, officials said Tuesday as the fires remained active and uncontained. The South Fork Fire broke out Monday morning on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, and what had been a blaze of around […]
Jun. 18—Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency in Lincoln County and the Mescalero Apache Reservation and deployed New Mexico National Guard troops to the area as two wildfires continued to burn out of control. As many as 500 structures may be damaged or destroyed in the village of Ruidoso by the South […]
A wildfire swept into the mountain village of Ruidoso in southern New Mexico on Tuesday, destroying or damaging hundreds of structures after residents fled under evacuation orders with little time to rescue belongings. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency in southern New Mexico on Tuesday and deployed additional National Guard troops to […]
By Shankar Ramakrishnan (Reuters) – Earlier this year a hedge fund structured two trades worth $642 million, the kinds of which have not been seen since the 2008 crisis. It sold insurance to two U.S. lenders against losses on a loan portfolio, and then sold much of that risk to investors. The trades, a form […]
This is a developing story. Check back to sanluisobispo.com for updates. To get breaking news alerts, click here Update, 1:40 p.m.: The wildfire that broke out near San Luis Obispo on Tuesday afternoon has been contained, Cal Fire posted on X. The fire was contained by 1:16 p.m., Cal Fire said, and the structures threat […]
The Florida Forest Service said Thursday afternoon that firefighters are battling a brush fire that is threatening nearby structures near Clermont. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS The agency said the wildfire, which is of an unknown size, is burning near Laguna Road in Lake County. Residents are asked to stay clear of the area. […]
FILE – Daniel Banyai, the owner of Slate Ridge, speaks to supporters, April 17, 2021, in West Pawlet, Vt., during a Second Amendment Day Picnic. An arrest warrant was rescinded Thursday, April 11, 2024, for Banyai, the Vermont owner of a controversial firearms training center involved in a long-running legal dispute after the town says […]
BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning after a support column was struck by a vessel, sending cars into the Patapsco River, launching a search-and-rescue operation and prompting Gov. Wes Moore to declare a state of emergency. Here’s what you should know about the Francis Scott Key bridge: What is the […]