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California
fromPadailypost
1 hour ago

11 people lose their home in an apartment fire

A kitchen renovation project caused a fire in a Mountain View apartment, displacing 11 residents but resulting in no injuries.
fromQNS
2 days ago
New York City

Hundreds of firefighters battle massive 5-alarm warehouse fire in College Point: FDNY - QNS

California
fromPadailypost
1 hour ago

11 people lose their home in an apartment fire

A kitchen renovation project caused a fire in a Mountain View apartment, displacing 11 residents but resulting in no injuries.
fromQNS
2 days ago
New York City

Hundreds of firefighters battle massive 5-alarm warehouse fire in College Point: FDNY - QNS

East Bay (California)
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
3 days ago

For dozens displaced by West Berkeley apartment fire, it's been a week of loss and stress

Residents displaced by a fire in West Berkeley face deep loss, anxiety, and the challenge of rebuilding their lives amidst ongoing responsibilities.
Education
fromSecuritymagazine
4 days ago

School's Out, But Security's Not: Preparing for K-12 Summertime Security

Summer vacation does not reduce security threats in K-12 environments; instead, the nature of risks changes significantly.
Environment
fromFast Company
3 days ago

This new interactive map shows which NYC blocks are most vulnerable to flooding

Climate change threatens New York City with flooding, as over one-fifth of the city is identified as vulnerable 'Blue Zones'.
fromBoston.com
6 days ago

What to know about the 'massive' military bunker beneath Trump's ballroom

Trump described the underground facility as a 'massive military complex' that will include bomb shelters and 'very major medical facilities,' emphasizing its importance for national security.
US news
fromHoodline
4 days ago

Five-Story Bronx Building Erupts In Pre-Dawn Blaze

The FDNY is committed to empowering our communities with the knowledge and tools to prevent fires and protect lives, emphasizing education and resources in at-risk areas.
Brooklyn
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

Not everyone who keeps a small social circle is protecting their energy. Some of them built a wide one once, watched it reveal exactly how many people would show up during an actual emergency, and quietly restructured around the answer - Silicon Canals

Small social circles often result from past crises that reveal true friendships, rather than a preference for fewer connections.
Remote teams
from3blmedia
6 days ago

Why Traditional Evacuation Plans Fall Short in Hybrid Work

Hybrid work complicates evacuation plans, creating gaps when designated safety personnel are absent, necessitating a shift to more inclusive safety strategies.
Independent films
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954

The 1954 film 'The House in the Middle' illustrates the benefits of cleanliness in the context of atomic blasts.
#wildfire-preparedness
Renovation
fromEarth911
6 days ago

Guest Idea: April Is Already Fire Season. Is Your Home Ready?

Wildfire preparedness focuses on reducing ember ignition risks, especially in the critical five-foot zone around homes.
fromKqed
2 months ago
Environment

Living With Fire: Inside Northern California's First 'Wildfire-Prepared Neighborhood' | KQED

Renovation
fromEarth911
6 days ago

Guest Idea: April Is Already Fire Season. Is Your Home Ready?

Wildfire preparedness focuses on reducing ember ignition risks, especially in the critical five-foot zone around homes.
fromKqed
2 months ago
Environment

Living With Fire: Inside Northern California's First 'Wildfire-Prepared Neighborhood' | KQED

fromMail Online
1 week ago

Trump's 'Doomsday Plane' circling US nuclear war command center

The Boeing E-4B 'Nightwatch,' also known as the 'Doomsday plane,' made several loops above the Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on Monday. The massive jet serves as a flying command post for top officials, including the president, vice president and Secretary of War, during crises.
Washington DC
New York City
fromGothamist
1 day ago

Empty building in Chelsea caught fire, FDNY says

Firefighters extinguished a fire in an empty Manhattan apartment building, with two firefighters hospitalized for minor injuries.
San Francisco
fromMission Local
2 weeks ago

Cell outage blocks San Francisco 911 calls

A cell outage may disrupt 911 calls in San Francisco, prompting residents to use Wi-Fi calling or text 911 for assistance.
#fdny
Brooklyn
fromNews 12 - Default
1 week ago

FDNY called to battery fire inside Williamsburg library

FDNY responded to a lithium-ion battery fire at the Williamsburg library, which was extinguished without injuries or structural damage.
Brooklyn
fromNews 12 - Default
1 week ago

FDNY called to battery fire inside Williamsburg library

FDNY responded to a lithium-ion battery fire at the Williamsburg library, which was extinguished without injuries or structural damage.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 weeks ago

Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense

Dystopian visions of AI's impact on society raise significant concerns about control and governance as technology advances.
Science
fromHigh Country News
2 weeks ago

New nuclear safety rules reduce protections for workers, the public - High Country News

Easing radiation standards threatens worker safety in the nuclear industry, according to a veteran who handled radioactive materials for decades.
#emergency-preparedness
Public health
fromMail Online
3 weeks ago

Emergency list reveals survival items Americans should stockpile

Americans should prepare emergency supplies to sustain themselves for several days without outside help during disasters.
California
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Saratoga evacuation seminar helps residents prepare for emergencies

Saratoga city officials hosted a preparedness seminar with public safety organizations and nonprofits to help residents understand evacuation procedures and emergency response coordination.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Saratoga evacuation seminar helps residents prepare for emergencies

Saratoga city officials organized a community seminar featuring multiple public safety organizations and nonprofits to educate residents about evacuation preparedness and emergency response procedures.
Public health
fromMail Online
3 weeks ago

Emergency list reveals survival items Americans should stockpile

Americans should prepare emergency supplies to sustain themselves for several days without outside help during disasters.
California
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Saratoga evacuation seminar helps residents prepare for emergencies

Saratoga city officials hosted a preparedness seminar with public safety organizations and nonprofits to help residents understand evacuation procedures and emergency response coordination.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Saratoga evacuation seminar helps residents prepare for emergencies

Saratoga city officials organized a community seminar featuring multiple public safety organizations and nonprofits to educate residents about evacuation preparedness and emergency response procedures.
World politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
2 weeks ago

National Security Starts at Home - Not on the Battlefield

National security relies on enduring internal capacity rather than just accumulated hard power or visible instruments of power.
Europe news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks ago

Readers share soft prepping' tips as Iran war escalates

The Independent emphasizes the importance of accessible journalism and community preparedness in the face of crises and societal challenges.
OMG science
fromMail Online
3 weeks ago

Scientists reveal terrifying global aftermath of nuclear war

Nuclear war poses catastrophic long-term consequences for human health and the environment, far exceeding the immediate destruction.
Berlin
fromwww.berlin.de
3 weeks ago

Berlin plans to strengthen civil defense

Berlin's Senate commits to strengthening civil defense through appointing coordinators in each department and increasing crisis drills to enhance population protection and crisis resilience.
London politics
fromwww.bbc.com
4 weeks ago

The deal that cost father and son's lives in 'forgotten disaster'

A father and son died in a 1946 crush at an FA Cup match at Burnden Park when over 85,000 people exceeded the stadium's 20,000 capacity, killing 33 and injuring 400.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Why Your Phone Battery Dies Faster During a Public Emergency

When cell towers are damaged or overloaded, phones work harder to stay connected, using up more power. Weak signals, frequent reconnecting, and increased activity from the phone's modem are among the main reasons the battery does not last as long in these situations.
Coronavirus
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Experience: I suffered terrible burns as a child then became a firefighter

A severe burn accident at age six caused third- and fourth-degree burns on 73% of the body, requiring a year of hospitalization and long-term recovery, fundamentally shaping life trajectory and resilience.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

'Doomsday plane' performs exercises in Fresno, stoking fears as war escalates

Two Doomsday Planes spotted in California over two months were conducting routine operations unrelated to Iran tensions, though their presence sparked public speculation about national security threats.
San Francisco
fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Why SF's emergency sirens will stay silent even amid Iran drone threat

San Francisco's emergency sirens have remained silent since 2019 due to unrepaired hardware and security issues, leaving the city reliant on alternative alert methods despite potential security threats.
Brooklyn
fromHoodline
3 weeks ago

Massive Midwood Fire Sends Smoke Over Brooklyn

A massive fire in Midwood, Brooklyn, prompted a significant emergency response with thick smoke and ongoing firefighting efforts.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

People who stay calm during emergencies but fall apart over minor inconveniences aren't fragile. Their system was calibrated for catastrophe, and it genuinely doesn't know how to scale down to a traffic jam or a lost set of keys. - Silicon Canals

Accumulated small daily frustrations can trigger greater stress responses than single major crises in people whose nervous systems were calibrated for survival under chronic danger or high-stakes conditions.
Real estate
fromElite Traveler
1 month ago

How to Build a Safe Room

Modern home security extends far beyond basic alarm systems, with safe rooms integrated into daily living spaces replacing outdated basement bunkers as the preferred protective measure.
East Bay (California)
fromABC7 San Francisco
3 weeks ago

Berkeley Hills fire raises concerns about inaccessible escape route due to locked gate

A two-alarm fire destroyed one Berkeley Hills home and damaged another, raising concerns about neighborhood evacuation routes when emergency exits were inaccessible.
fromHudson Valley Post
1 month ago

New York Hotspots Named Primary Nuclear Strike Targets

New York is one of roughly a dozen major U.S. cities that could be targeted because of its political, economic, and industrial importance. Experts say in a worst-case scenario, enemies of the United States could target major cities that represent power or national influence.
NYC politics
fromABC7 San Francisco
4 weeks ago

At least 2 hospitalized following possible hazmat incident in Alameda, officials say

Two people have been taken to the hospital on Monday after possibly being exposed to hazardous materials in Alameda, officials said. Evacuations are underway at an apartment complex along the 700 block of Santa Clara Ave.
East Bay (California)
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Greetings From My Bomb Shelter

During warfare and crisis, focusing on controllable elements like schedules, rituals, and self-care practices provides psychological stability and resilience.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How to Help Communities Rebound from Crisis and Disaster

Disaster psychology provides an empirically-based framework for building community resilience and growth during crises through understanding predictable psychological phases and natural recovery mechanisms.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Navigating the Messy Middle of Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery extends beyond the initial crisis phase; year two brings psychological challenges including chronic stress, financial strain, and bureaucratic delays that impair functioning and compound trauma.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

I led communications at FEMA during a hurricane - and had to flee my home after a death threat

In the middle of the response, as we were communicating safety and recovery information, other public officials and I were targeted. A mix of people were insinuating that we weren't doing our job. They were also spreading misinformation. As I reflect, what was really surprising to me at the time was getting attacked for my religion. I'm Jewish. There were a lot of people online who could say anything and everything without knowing me - very hurtful things.
Women in technology
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Interactive map reveals your nearest nuclear shelter

Gold's map includes dozens (and possibly hundreds) of basement shelters in cities such as Boston, Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York, Oklahoma City, Sacramento and Washington, DC. He told the Daily Mail that each state has a link to its own map, sending users to a Google Maps page where radioactive symbols mark the locations of every shelter Gold has been able to verify still exists as of August 2025.
US news
fromFast Company
1 month ago

This Berkeley building can snap back into place after a major earthquake

The rods are the central element of a novel seismic-responsive structural system that is designed to help the building snap back to its original shape in the event of a major earthquake. Their trick is an embedded cluster of taut cables made from a highly flexible compound called a shape-memory alloy that's capable of bending under tension-like the lateral shaking in a California earthquake-and then straightening out.
Science
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Perfect for an apocalypse! How the nuclear bunker became TV's hottest property

Billionaires are building elaborate underground bunkers and cities as doomsday shelters, reflecting both real-world anxiety and growing entertainment fascination with apocalyptic scenarios.
Brooklyn
fromNews 12 - Default
1 month ago

FDNY responds to fifthfloor fire at Bushwick Houses

FDNY responded to a fifth-floor fire at Bushwick Houses on Friday afternoon with 120 personnel; no injuries reported and Red Cross assisted two people.
Miscellaneous
fromNews 12 - Default
1 month ago

New NYC OEM commissioner takes the helm and tackles this week's blizzard

Christina Farrell became the new NYC Office of Emergency Management commissioner and is leading response efforts to the current blizzard, bringing over two decades of emergency management experience.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The billionaire bunker problem: how the people building AI safety tools are simultaneously buying escape plans from the world those tools are supposed to save - Silicon Canals

Tech billionaires building AI safety systems simultaneously invest in doomsday bunkers and escape plans, revealing a fundamental contradiction between their public commitments to humanity and private hedging against civilizational collapse.
#coastal-erosion
Gadgets
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

When every second counts: government tech helps first responders' lifesaving missions

Indoor-capable drones and indoor location-tracking technologies significantly improve first responder situational awareness and reduce risk in hazardous interior environments.
fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

Designing When Your City Is Under Siege

Life doesn't pause for grief or fear. You might be going through something devastating but you're still packing lunches, still driving your kids to baseball practice, still showing up to work. One minute I find myself prepping for a whole home presentation and the next minute I'm checking the news, hoping and praying that no one has been killed on the streets today.
Design
#doomsday-clock
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

First Responders Are Calling Out The "Fatal" Safety Mistakes You Should Never, Ever Make

If you are choking and are alone, try to get yourself into a high-traffic area, such as a hallway in a building or outside your house. If you pass out, you're way more likely to be found as opposed to being in a room in a building or your house. Call 911 even though you can't speak. Someone will be sent to your location by dispatch.
Public health
fromEast Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
2 months ago

Freedom From Fear Pt. 2: the tactical side of terror

Let me be emphatic; all undocumented immigrants have committed a crime. They have all broken immigration law. All of the undocumented immigrants I spoke to frankly admitted this. And almost all of them also expressed a real desire for immigration reform. That surprised me-at first. Although, on second thought, they would almost certainly benefit from any rationalized system-which would necessarily recognize their indispensable importance to the U.S. economy.
US politics
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Blankets, batteries, fires: How Kyiv is surviving icy winter

Ukraine is currently undergoing a particularly cold spell with temperatures in the capital Kyiv reaching lows of minus 17 degrees Celsius. Because of Russia's ongoing destruction of the country's energy infrastructure, the situation is critical. Authorities have imposed strict timetables for when electricity can be used. About 400 high-rise buildings in the capital have no heating at all. Some do not have access to water.
Miscellaneous
Public health
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Campbell hosts CERT Academy winter training

Local community offers CERT disaster-preparedness training, a Lunar New Year celebration, and recognizes the Open Space Authority for governance transparency.
Environment
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

How to fireproof a city

Simple, low-cost building and community design changes can make homes survive wildfires and require collective neighborhood-scale action as risks rise with climate change.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Data centre blaze tackled by 60 firefighters

LFB Dozens of firefighters have extinguished a fire in the basement of a data centre in east London. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said around 60 firefighters and eight fire engines were called to Nutmeg Lane, Blackwall at 04:50 GMT on Saturday. The fire broke out in a battery room containing lead-acid batteries and was brought under control before 07:00. The cause of the blaze has not been determined.
UK news
fromKqed
2 months ago

Living With Fire: Inside Northern California's First 'Wildfire-Prepared Neighborhood' | KQED

"Fire-hardened homes are the future of the state of California," said El Dorado County Supervisor George Turnboo.
California
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

Borough Park fire injures one firefighter, six civilians

BOROUGH PARK - A fire inside a Borough Park building left six civilians and one firefighter injured on Wednesday, Jan. 28. The blaze started at 8:50 a.m. on the second floor of the building. FDNY said 21 units and 79 firefighters and EMS workers were at the scene. The fire was put out at 10:10 a.m. One person is in critical condition while five civilians and a firefighter sustained minor injuries.
New York City
Public health
fromBuzzFeed
2 months ago

First Responders Are Calling Out The "Fatal" Safety Mistakes You Need To Stop Making ASAP

Home medical oxygen increases fire risk; secure and store cylinders properly, avoid ignition sources, and use smoke alarms and warning signs.
#hazardous-materials
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Underwear Is Emergency Gear! How to Prep for This Weekend's Extreme Winter Weather

The Winter storm has no name. But a storm is coming, An extreme winter weather system is expected to move eastward from New Mexico to Georgia and Maine beginning Friday, and affect anywhere from a third to half the country's population by the end of the weekend. This will likely bring snow, ice accumulation, and biting cold to parts of the country unaccustomed to harsh winter weather.
Environment
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

10 people die in NYC's frigid cold, raising questions about the city's preparedness

Each is among a growing number of people - at least 10, as of Tuesday - who died after being exposed to the bitter cold that has persisted in New York City since late last Friday. Their causes of death are still under investigation, but some showed signs of having succumbed to hypothermia. Officials said several victims were believed to have been living on the streets. At least six of the fatalities came early Saturday, as the temperature in the city fell to 9 degrees (minus 13 degrees Celsius).
Brooklyn
New York City
fromQNS
2 months ago

Three homes gutted during fatal 4-alarm fire on Dongan Avenue in Elmhurst on Monday: FDNY - QNS

A 34-year-old woman was killed and eleven people injured during a four-alarm house fire in Elmhurst; fire controlled after partial collapse.
New York City
fromTime Out New York
2 months ago

Where to find a warming center in NYC right now

New York City expanded warming centers, buses, and drop-in spaces; call 311 for the nearest location, hours, and emergency outreach during extreme cold.
Environment
fromFast Company
2 months ago

In California, developers are building the country's first wildfire resilient neighborhoods

A Sacramento-area neighborhood uses IBHS Wildfire Prepared Neighborhoods standards to build ember-resistant homes and layout designs that reduce wildfire ignition and spread.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
2 months ago

How to stay warm in NYC during a winter freeze

NYC Code Blue activates when temperatures (including wind chill) fall to 32°F or below between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m.; follow heat-safety and tenant-rights steps.
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