#emergency-response

#emergency-response

Landslides hit a house and a campground in New Zealand on Thursday, leaving at least two dead while emergency crews were trying to rescue others buried in rubble, officials said. The first hit a house in the community of Welcome Bay on New Zealand's North Island at 4:50am, police said. Two people escaped the house, and the bodies of two who were trapped inside were recovered hours later, the emergency management minister, Mark Mitchell, said.

SAN MATEO, Calif. (KGO) -- All westbound lanes of the San Mateo Bridge are closed following a deadly accident. Authorities say at least two cars were involved in crash. SKY7 image shows emergency crews over the scene and the backup. This story is developing. Check back for updates. You can track the latest traffic conditions here. Copyright © 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.

Adamuz's municipal events hall, which had been turned into an emergency response centre to which the injured passengers were ferried, told its own tale. A dozen trestle tables were neatly stacked with hundreds of blankets brought by local people. Inside and outside the hall, Guardia Civil officers mixed with local police, civil emergency workers and dozens of journalists. One ashen-faced officer was not sure how to sum up the events of the past few hours. It was what it was, he said.

High-speed train derailed, jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and crashed into an oncoming train on Sunday in southern Spain Spain's transport minister Oscar Puente updated the death toll but said more victims could be confirmed The crash happened in an area that is hard to reach- locals were taking blankets and water to the scene to help the victims

One person died and nine others were injured in a collision between a bus and a train locomotive in the northern German city of Hamburg, the city's fire service said Friday. All the victims were inside the bus at the time of the accident, a fire service spokesman told AFP. The bus driver is in a "life-threatening" situation, with two other passengers seriously injured and six lightly injured, he said.

Several people were injured Thursday afternoon in a multi-vehicle highway crash in Boston, according to Massachusetts State Police. Troopers responded to the crash on Interstate 93 South near Exit 15 at about 3:30 p.m., police said in a statement. As of Thursday evening, one person is "in serious condition." Fire officials and emergency responders were on the scene to render aid to the crash victims, according to police. The left two highway lanes were closed.

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In some ways, it was just another campaign coffee: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Austin Beutner in a roomful of voters talking about his career and life accomplishments. But this was no ordinary meet-and-greet. Beutner was standing inside a partially rebuilt house - with no doors, no windows and no drywall - in an area leveled by the Palisades fire. In the living room, about a dozen people spoke about what they had been through, from the frantic evacuation to the sight of smoldering ruins to the battle to get rebuilding permits.

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A pedestrian was taken to a Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries after they were struck by a car in Canton on Wednesday evening. Local emergency personnel responded to the scene at Randolph Street and Wentworth Road shortly before 7 p.m., according to a release from Canton police and fire.

Their system will get a ping and say, hey, there's a fire within a mile of your property, you should know about it,

Local officials said the cause of the fire is not yet known but they have ruled out any kind of attack. Experts have not yet been able to go inside the building. Two women told French broadcaster BFMTV that they were inside when they saw a barman carrying a barmaid on his shoulders. The barmaid was holding a lit candle in a bottle that set fire to the wooden ceiling. The flames quickly spread and collapsed the ceiling, they told the broadcaster.

Two trains have collided on the rail line serving Peru's famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu, killing at least one person and injuring dozens. Rail agency Ferrocarril Transandino said a train operated by PeruRail collided with another locomotive belonging to Inca Rail around lunchtime on the single track that links the town of Ollantaytambo with Machu Picchu.

NYC's Emergency Management's Code Blue remained in effect through Sunday morning, alerting residents to ongoing extreme cold weather. The weekend storm, which prompted a state of emergency from Gov. Kathy Hochul on Dec. 26, covered the city with its deepest snow accumulation since Jan. 28-29, 2022, when 8.3 inches of the white stuff fell on the Big Apple. Snowfall began at around 5:30 p.m. during Friday's afternoon rush hour.

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An explosion at a chemical factory in Lyon, in eastern France, has led to the closure of road and rail links, while local residents have been advised to stay indoors. The blast happened at a factory in the Saint-Fons area, south of Lyon, on Monday afternoon. The factory was classed as a Seveso site - a European classification meaning a site with a potential risk to health.

Toronto police say a collision involving several vehicles in the city's east-end left one driver in life-threatening condition Sunday. In a post to social media, the Toronto Police Service said they were called to Eglinton Avenue near the Don Valley Parkway ramp shortly after 4 p.m. Toronto police said several vehicles were involved. One driver was transported to hospital via emergency run in life-threatening condition, Toronto police said.

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- A surfer is recovering after being bitten by a shark at North Salmon Creek Beach in Sonoma County Friday morning, according to authorities. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook that the surfer was bitten on the hand and was able to get out of the water before fire crews arrived. Officials say the surfer declined medical treatment at the scene and transported themselves to the hospital.

New details emerged this week about the massive February fire that erupted at the Martinez Refinery Company and released more than 7,000 gallons of hydrocarbon materials into the air, as officials revealed that oil crews had been using incompatible radio systems that prevented immediate contact with local public safety agencies. While county firefighters arrived on the scene 14 minutes after being notified of a fire at MRC, crews were stalled outside, unable to contact the refinery operators on site - a communication gap that delayed the establishment of a unified command center by nearly two hours.

"The younger girl had blood all over the face. She was in complete shock. I think there might have been something with her arm being dislocated because she had kind of like an awkward position. They looked in shock and easily that the explosion took out their ear drum - I assume - because people were trying to talk to them and they were not really hearing it," said Oscar Vazquez, a resident in the area.