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San Antonio Council Seeks Special Session After North Side Home Explosions

A City Council push for a special session signals a broader review of emergency coordination.

Peru’s Volunteer Firefighters Warn of $1.2 Billion Gap as Most Engines Are Down

Antisemitic Arson Probe After Four Hatzola Ambulances Torched in Golders Green

Germantown Sinkhole Repairs Advance as Temporary Sewer Bypass Set to Begin Friday

Columbus Avenue Reopens After Major Jackson Square Water Main Break

Mayor Moves to Restore South Connellsville VFC as Primary Responder After Council Ouster

Two Bailey Bridges Dispatched After Closure of Arequipa’s Uchumayo Span

Overnight Tourcoing Apartment Fire Kills Two Men

Water Restored After Massive Main Burst Floods Caledonian Road in Islington

Magnitude 3.5 Quake Rattles Off Rancho Palos Verdes Coast Late Sunday

Power Largely Restored as Phillipsburg Maps Sinkholes After Truck Collapse

Manjeera Trunk Pipeline Bursts in Manikonda, Flooding Homes and Cutting Water to Thousands

Bay Area Storm Brings Heavy Rain, High Winds and 500 Lightning Strikes

Contractor Strikes Power Lines in Clear Lake, Operator Stuck as Outages Hit 1,300

Mysuru Scrapyard Blaze Guts At Least 12 Godowns, No Casualties Reported

Kreuzberg Bürgeramt Expected to Reopen Thursday After Fumes Force Closure

Most Power Restored in Brooklyn After Salt-Damaged Cables Trigger Dayslong Outages

Ottawa Boosts Policing in Surrey Extortion Crisis, Declines Emergency Request

Louisiana Confirms Ninth Winter-Storm Death After Prolonged Power Outage

VDOT Uses Heavy Equipment to Open Emergency Access on Iced Virginia Neighborhood Streets