#evacuation

#evacuation

Police have ordered evacuations in a UK town centre after the discovery of a substance that could be hazardous. Reports were made at around 1pm this afternoon that a potentially hazardous substance had been found inside business premises. A cordon is currently in place in Baxter Gate in Loughborough after the incident. The premises in question, along with others nearby, have been evacuated as a precaution according to Leicestershire Police.

The Syrian army is telling civilians to evacuate parts of the rural Aleppo governorate after accusing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of building up troops in the area, following days of deadly fighting inside Aleppo city, as concerns rise over a new front in the simmering battle. A humanitarian zone was expected to remain open on Thursday from 9am local time (6:00 GMT) to 5pm (14:00 GMT), allowing residents to leave Deir Hafer and Maskana in the eastern countryside.

At least two people remained hospitalized early Monday, hours after a carbon monoxide leak spewed fumes throughout a three-family Brooklyn home late Sunday, authorities say. According to investigators, a 17-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman both felt woozy around 11 p.m. at the home, on West Sixth Street, between Avenue U and Avenue T in Gravesend. They told other family members, who called 911.

Following the brutal Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital on Friday morning, the Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko is urging residents to leave the city. Kyiv has around four million residents and has had multiple attacks since the war started on 24 February 2022. There has been a grim warning that over the coming days a there could be a "potentially significant air attack that may occur at any time." Russia attacked the capital with 36 missiles and 242 drones leaving almost 6,000 residential buildings with no power or heating at a time when temperatures have fallen below -10C.

At a press conference on Friday, Valais canton Attorney General Beatrice Pilloud said investigators were interviewing witnesses and would review video evidence to determine whether a bar that went up in flames in the early hours of 2026 had the correct fire safety procedures and emergency exits. Officials have not said whether the bar had the two escape routes required under Swiss fire and building codes or whether those exits were usable at the time of the fire.

"It's tragic here," said Travis Guenther, 54, who lives in the town's Happy Jack neighborhood. "This is a horrible scene down here."

The moment he stepped through the gates, he sensed something was wrong. Kabul, in his mind, was untouchable. I didn't think it would reach Kabul, he said in an interview by phone from his apartment in Boise, Idaho, recently. It referred to the resurgence of the Taliban. The Guardian is using a pseudonym for Ali's safety and that of his family. He said: The US had its embassy there. There were so many Americans. But the scene at the base that morning looked nothing like the one he knew. Pilots sprinted between hangars, stuffing bags and shouting orders. Routines that once gave structure to their days had collapsed.

Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Toronto Fire Services Chief Jim Jessop said city engineers have recommended causing significant damage to units with the adjoining burning wall. We understand this is hard to hear for those impacted, he said. We know residents are eager to return home and we share that urgency, but safety must come first. Jessop has called the five-alarm blaze, which originally started on Nov. 27, one of the more complex he's seen in his career.

Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, both from London, were being driven through the mountains from Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Thursday when the road in front of them was swamped, sending a bus nearby over a cliff-edge. The women's own car was stuck in a ditch and at risk of being washed away, said Watters' daughter, Katie Beeching, but the friends and their driver had to stay in the vehicle overnight in worsening conditions.

"The staff has been extremely cooperative, and they're probably really the true heroes, moving patients before we even got here."

A man has been injured after the van he was driving exploded after it hit the ceiling of an underground car park in south-west London, the Metropolitan Police has said. The force was called to reports of an explosion at a shopping centre on Queen's Road, Wimbledon at 10:10 GMT on Monday. The London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade (LFB) were also called to the scene.

Romanian authorities have ordered the evacuation of residents in the village of Plauru on the Danube River that forms the border with Ukraine after a drone reportedly struck an LPG-carrying ship on the Ukrainian side of the river. In a statement released on November 17, the Defense Ministry said its radar monitoring and surveillance systems also detected and tracked targets in Ukrainian airspace near Tulcea County where Plauru lies.

The evacuation took place a day after a man identified as Dy Nai was said to have been killed in a shootout between Cambodian and Thai soldiers around the same frontier village. Three others were injured in the incident, according to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet. Both sides blamed the other for what happened on Wednesday, claiming they were not the first to open fire.

Close to two dozen homes have been evacuated in this area following a report shortly after 12.30am today of suspect devices. A public safety operation was implemented, and cordons put in place. Chief Inspector Graeme Craig said: "We understand the level of disruption this has caused to residents - including families and children - who have had to leave their homes during the early hours, and how unsettling this will have been.

This incident stands as a testament to the strength of coordination and teamwork among the city's public safety departments,

A bus carrying the UMass Lowell marching band caught fire on Sunday. The Westwood Fire Department received several reports of a bus on fire on High Street (Route 109) near Grove Street around 1:30 p.m. Upon arrival at the scene, the fire was spreading from the outside of the bus to the inside handlines, the fire department said. The bus had been evacuated after a student reported an odor, smoke, and flames, UMass Lowell said in a statement.

Five terrestrial units of Barcelona firefighters were deployed to the scene, located in the Eixample neighbourhood in front of Casa de les Punxes, after emergency services received a call about the fire at approximately 5:00pm. The fire had started on the bus, which was at the intersection of Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer de Rosselló. As officials jumped into action, both streets, as well as the nearby Carrer Roger de Llúria, were blocked to traffic, according to the Barcelona City Council.

Residents of these settlements, especially families with children who, unfortunately, still remain there, must immediately leave the area accompanied by representatives of the evacuation services,

A construction team made a shocking discovery at the Port of Long Beach on Wednesday afternoon when they inadvertently unearthed a World War II-era explosive device, authorities said. The eight-decade-old shell was found at one of the port's six container terminals, according to a port spokesperson. The Long Beach police and fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard evacuated the terminal and established a safety perimeter, while the L.A. County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad responded and assessed the situation.

When I went to a screening of The Lost Bus at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, it was in a very big theater with a big screen and a big audience. The story of a bus driver and a schoolteacher getting a bus full of children to safety during California's devastating 2018 Camp Fire, it stars Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, and there was quite a bit of curiosity about it.

Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a lifeline programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza. The Pause programme for writers and artists in emergency situations, as well as a student evacuation programme, were abruptly suspended by the French government at the beginning of August over a Palestinian student's allegedly antisemitic online remarks, a decision that the letter-writing authors said amounted to a collective

Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London, was evacuated after a fire broke out in one of its multi-storey car parks on Saturday afternoon. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was called to the shopping centre on Montfichet Road just after 16:00 BST. Around 12 vehicles were alight on the second floor of car park C, producing a significant amount of smoke, a spokesperson said.