What’s a State of Emergency? Here’s what it means when one is declared in NC
Gov. Stein has issued a State of Emergency for North Carolina. Here’s what that means and some past examples of declarations.
Faulty evacuation alerts woke Angelenos in a panic. What's wrong with L.A.'s emergency system?
An alert to evacuate from the Los Angeles County Fire Department on Thursday afternoon appeared to have been sent in error.
'Staggering’ numbers of wildfire victims seeking shelter and emergency supplies, says LA Dream Center founder
LA Dream Center founder Matthew Barnett and actress Patricia Heaton join ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss how the LA Dream ...
A plumbing emergency ruined thousands of books, closing a North Philly hub’s library
The trouble was discovered on Christmas Day, when an eagle-eyed neighbor spotted water coming out of the door of Tree House’s ...
MAP: Emergency room visits for respiratory illnesses are soaring in these states
A number of states are seeing a spike in hospital visits caused by respiratory illnesses as we enter the New Year.
4 passengers injured as hundreds evacuate Delta flight by emergency slide in Atlanta
Roughly 200 people hurriedly deplaned from Minneapolis-bound flight 2668 on the tarmac at Atlanta International Airport after ...
Delta passengers in Atlanta forced to evacuate plane on emergency slides amid winter storm
Flight 2668 had 201 passengers onboard, who were evacuated from the plane via emergency slides and taken back to the terminal ...
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Trump’s energy ‘emergency’ won’t look like Jimmy Carter’s
The last president to declare an energy emergency was Jimmy Carter, who in 1977 called U.S. efforts to confront a domestic ...
US agency declares California wildfires a public health emergency
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday declared a public health emergency for California to address ...
At Los Angeles emergency shelters, wildfire evacuees turn to community help amid uncertainty
"It’s hard to see, because there’s so much pain and suffering,” said one local, who dropped off toys at the Westwood ...
Southern California wildfires prompt more evacuations overnight; LA County declares health emergency
The expanding wildfires in Southern California have prompted more evacuation orders overnight while the Los Angeles County ...
Fact Check: Human metapneumovirus in China is not ‘new,’ no state of emergency declared
A recent increase in cases of the human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in China has been misrepresented on social media as evidence ...