WAVERLY, Tenn.—The body of the final person missing from a devastating weekend flood in Middle Tennessee was recovered on Wednesday, prompting the search for victims to be suspended as the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured the area. Saturday’s flooding took out houses, roads, cellphone towers, and telephone lines, with rainfall that more…
Western State Governors Push Biden Admin to Declare Federal Drought Disaster
Several Western state governors sent a letter on Sunday to President Joe Biden’s administration requesting he declare a federal drought disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) drought disaster declaration would shore up additional funding in the states currently experiencing severe drought conditions. The letter was signed by the governors of Utah, Oregon, California, Colorado,…
Survivor of Flooded Subway in China Tells Story of Escape
Heavy rains have hit the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou hard this past week. On Tuesday, the city received the equivalent of one-third of its annual average rainfall in the span of one hour. Officials say that the death toll across Henan Province has reached over 50. But one local who survived a brush with…
Orange County’s ‘Pastor of Disaster’ Helps Victims Worldwide
It would seem natural to call Richard Yeomans the “pastor of disaster.” Yeomans is the president of Emergency Ministry Services, a group that trains disaster response teams operating out of churches across Southern California. Since founding the organization in 2007, the San Juan Capistrano resident has deployed to 41 natural and man-made disasters around the…
Unsealed Soviet Archives Reveal Cover-Ups at Chernobyl Plant Before Disaster
KYIV—The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dangerous and covered up emergencies there before the 1986 disaster, the Ukrainian authorities said as they released documents to mark the 35th anniversary of the accident on Monday. After a botched safety test in the fourth reactor of the plant, located in what was then Soviet…
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