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Deaths. 1. Non-fatal injuries. 0. On June 11, 2023,[1]a tanker truck carrying gasoline caught fire beneath the overpassthat carries Interstate 95(I-95) at the Pennsylvania Route 73(PA 73, Cottman Avenue) interchangein the Taconyneighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. The extreme heat caused the northbound lanes to collapse and damaged the ...
The January 2022 North American blizzard caused widespread and disruptive impacts to the Atlantic coast of North America from northern Delaware to Nova Scotia with as much as 2.5 feet (30 in) of snowfall, blizzard conditions and coastal flooding at the end of January 2022. Forming from the energy of a strong mid- to upper-level trough, the ...
Non-fatal injuries. 10. On March 24, 2023, [2] an explosion occurred at a chocolate factory operated by the R.M. Palmer Company in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Seven people died and ten were injured, including one rescued from rubble. [3] At around 4:57 p.m (EST), [4] it sent plumes of smoke into the air and shook houses.
The 2023 Delaware River chemical spill was a failure of equipment that occurred on March 24, 2023 at the Trinseo Altuglas chemical plant in Bristol, Pennsylvania in the United States, which resulted in a leak of between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons of butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, and methyl methacrylate into Otter Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River.
Approximate touchdown location of killer tornadoes in 2021 Summary of tornadoes [ 4 ] January 25 – Alabama (1 death) 5. February 15 – North Carolina (3 deaths) 6. March 25 – Alabama (6 deaths) 7. March 27 – Texas (1 death) April 10 – Louisiana (1 death) 8. September 1 – Pennsylvania (1 death) 9.
In Oil City, one person was killed by a falling tree limb. A state of emergency was declared for Pennsylvania. [55] [56] August 28, 2011 – Hurricane Irene left 706,000 people without power in eastern Pennsylvania, and killed three people in Northampton County, Luzerne County, and Pocono Township. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter declared a ...
During the evening of January 8 through January 9, a severe weather outbreak brought damaging winds and numerous tornadoes to the Southeastern and Eastern United States. On January 7, the Storm Prediction Center issued an enhanced risk for severe weather in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, including a 10% ...
March 25, 1999 [ 1 ] The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and ...