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No one was injured in the incident, and the vessel was assisted off the rocks at high tide, but it suffered extensive damage to its propulsion system, having two of the four steering and propulsion pods for the right-angle drives sheared off and one of the two remaining pods suffering propeller damage. [28]
Fifteen active wildfires burned across New York state Monday totaling roughly 2,500 acres, with the largest in Ulster and Orange counties. Captain Scott Jackson, a Fire Management Officer for the ...
1996 Channel Tunnel fire, which burned for over seven hours on 18 November 1996. 2006 Channel Tunnel fire, which closed the tunnel for a short period on 21 August 2006. 2008 Channel Tunnel fire, which burned for sixteen hours on 11 September 2008. 2012 Channel Tunnel fire, which closed the tunnel for a short period on 29 November 2012.
Operated by the Vancouver Coal Company, the Number One mine opened in 1884 at the foot of Milton Street in Nanaimo. Its shafts and tunnels extended under the Nanaimo Harbour to Protection Island, Newcastle Island, and the Nanaimo River. After the explosion, the mine re-opened and produced 18 million tons of coal before permanently closing in 1938.
The Jennings Creek fire is 50% contained, ... News media reports citing FDNY sources said there were two brush fires in the 196-acre park Wednesday, but the first one was extinguished at about 4 p ...
Nanaimo (/ n ə ˈ n aɪ m oʊ / nə-NY-moh) is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada."The Harbour City" was previously known as the "Hub City", which was attributed to its original layout design with streets radiating from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, and to its relatively central location on Vancouver Island.
NTSB's briefing will now be at 5.30 p.m. 20:59 , Kelly Rissman The National Transportation Safety Board’s briefing about its investigation into the mid-air collision will now be held at 5.30 p.m.
On October 17, 1951, 20 passengers and 3 crew members died in which at the time was considered to be the worst aviation accident in British Columbian history when a Canso-A (CF-FOQ) [9] that was operating as Queen Charlotte Airlines Flight 102-17 and was en route from Kitimat to Vancouver crashed into Mount Benson at the 490 m (1,610 ft) level at 6:55 P.M. PDT.