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A fire ripped through a high-rise residential building in the United Arab Emirates Tuesday (27 June). Videos shared on social media show flames raging from the 400ft, 36-storey tower of the Ajman ...
Disasters and accidents 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision The remains of all 67 people who were killed in a collision between a PSA Airlines CRJ700 and a United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk are recovered from the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. , United States.
On 15 April 2023, a residential building caught fire in the Al Ras neighbourhood of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which led to 16 fatalities and nine wounded. A preliminary investigation by the Dubai Civil Defence Forces showed non-compliance with building safety and security rules as the cause of the fire. [1] [2]
The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings.A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings.Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish.
An aircraft flies to drop fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm on Jan. 7, 2025.
On 16 April 2024, heavy rains caused floods in the United Arab Emirates, affected cities of mainly Dubai and Sharjah, the northern Emirates, and various areas of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. [2] According to the National Center for Meteorology (United Arab Emirates), this was the country's heaviest rainfall recorded in 75 years.
Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, dumping the heaviest rain ever recorded in the country in the span of hours as it flooded out portions of major highways and Dubai's ...
Emirates Flight 521 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, [1] operated by Emirates using a Boeing 777-300. [2] On 3 August 2016 the aircraft, carrying 282 passengers and 18 crew, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] crashed while landing at Dubai International Airport .