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Elmhurst residents clean up after flooding
Piles of water-logged carpet, mud-smeared mattresses, and broken furniture are an all too familiar sight on Washington Street in Elmhurst where residents are struggling to recover from the third flood in three years. "It's the same thing over again,"...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Science and Technology, Property
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Obama issues emergency declaration in Texas fertilizer plant blast
ReutersWASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for Texas on Friday to help the state cope with the fallout from a deadly fertilizer plant explosion. The order authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency...Tags: Chemical Industry, Barack Obama, Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Washington, DC
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Making homes safe from natural disasters
One could say that Judy Gibbons started prepping for her latest endeavor as a real estate agent 46 years ago today. That's because on April 21, 1967, a 9-year-old Gibbons huddled under the basement steps of her Barrington home with her mother, four...
Tags: Insurance, Real Estate, Tornadoes, Chicago Weather, Services and Shopping
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Rain hampers search for survivors of Texas explosion [Update]
Even as as President Obama pledged federal assistance to the devastated community, morning rainfall was hampering search and rescue efforts Thursday at the site of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, which killed as many as 15 people and...Tags: Chemical Industry, U.S. Geological Survey, Broken Bones, Barack Obama, Hospitals and Clinics
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Westfield Fire Department In Middletown Gets Grant For Thermal Cameras
The Hartford CourantThe Westfield Fire Department has received a $12,341 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to purchase two thermal imaging cameras. The cameras allow firefighters to detect heat sources – including trapped occupants – in an...Tags: East Hartford, Middletown
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Deadly explosion, fire rip through Texas fertilizer plant
Reuters* More than 100 people injured in disaster * Fatalities confirmed, but number undetermined * Toxic fumes force evacuation of half of town * No word on cause, U.S. Congressman doubts foul play By Regina Dennis WEST, Texas, April 18 (Reuters) - A...Tags: Chemical Industry, Broken Bones, Government, Emergency Incidents, Politics
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Conemaugh Township secures funding to repair storm-damaged roadway
Staff WriterDAVIDSVILLE — Conemaugh Township supervisors have gotten state and federal emergency management agencies to pay for more than $100,000 in repairs to storm-damaged Govier Lane. The bank alongside the roadway — off Glessner Lane near Route 985...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Chambersburg Area Middle School North hosts emergency drill
waynesboro@herald-mail.comAs teenage athletes left Chambersburg Area Middle School North on Wednesday evening, firetrucks and other emergency vehicles descended on the parking lot for a drill related to an mock attack at a nuclear power plant. Emergency services officials...Tags: Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Relief and Aid Organizations, Three Mile Island Accident (1979), American Red Cross, Health and Safety at School
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Summit Point corgis win ribbons at AKC National Agility Championships
richardb@herald-mail.comBlue ribbons eluded them, but Baron, Twists and Ceri still showed enough skill in their divisions to snare seven green ribbons among them at the recent American Kennel Club National Agility Championships in Tulsa, Okla. Gretchen Mason’s Welsh...Tags: American Kennel Club
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Mayor hopeful Stanford won't have to return any ice storm money
ben@theinteriorjournal.comSTANFORD — Mayor Bill Miracle is hopeful Stanford won't have to return any of the approximately $100,000 it received from the federal government for recovery costs following the devastating 2009 ice storm. Miracle told city council members last...Tags: Republic Services Incorporated
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Tri-State briefs
Franklin Co. residents not eligible for FEMA funding CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Franklin County, Pa., residents and businesses will not be eligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for damage stemming from Superstorm Sandy, Franklin County...Tags: Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Consumer Goods Industries, Beverage Industry, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Reminders of Imperial Valley's 2010 Easter earthquake linger
Imperial Valley Press Staff WritersWhen the Easter earthquake started rocking the Valley three years ago today, Josefina Rivera was so concentrated in her cooking that, at first, she dismissed it. “I was peeling a chicken,” said the El Centro resident in Spanish, “and...Tags: Environmental Issues, Medina (Saudi Arabia), Water Supply, Science and Technology, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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