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Two children were killed when a hillside collapsed along a river in Northern California, which has been hit by a series of winter storms. The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement ...
Sheriff’s deputies and other local enforcement were called just after 9 a.m. Thursday to a campground just north of Shasta Dam, the Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post. A caller, who ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
March 12, 2019. The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1924 and 1926. The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood, [2] [3] in what is ...
St. Francis Dam: Accident – dam failure: Santa Clarita, California: 581 1947 Texas City disaster: Accident – explosion: Texas City, Texas: Ammonium nitrate on board ship 501+ 1896 Tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896: Tornado outbreak sequence: Central United States, Southern United States: $2,900,000,000 (1997) At least 38 tornadoes ...
February 22, 2024 at 9:50 PM. Two children died after part of a Northern California hillside collapsed near a dam and river Thursday, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said. The children ...
Coal Mine dam failure. Casualties. 125 killed. 1,121 injured. 4,000+ left homeless. The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, on February 26, 1972, when a coal slurry impoundment dam burst, causing significant loss of life and property damage. [ 1] The impoundment dam, managed by Pittston Coal Company ...
November 2, 2023 at 4:34 PM. SUGARCREEK – A motorist was killed Thursday just before noon while attempting to make a left hand turn onto Shetler Road NW from Ohio 39, according to Assistant ...