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The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center saw the first full-scale activation of the facility during the Northeast blackout of 1965. [14] [15] According to a letter to the editor of The Washington Post, after the September 11 attacks, most of the congressional leadership were evacuated to Mount Weather by helicopter. [8] [16] [17]
Underground corrosion of guy wire steel and anchor shaft Two tower service personnel were seriously injured RÚV long wave radio mast, Vatnsendahæð, Reykjavik, Iceland February 3, 1991: Guyed steel lattice mast 150 Storm WDIO-TV Duluth, Minnesota, US March 23, 1991: Guyed steel triangular tower 259 Ice and high wind
August 10 – A gas leak in Ashtabula, Ohio was ignited by electrical equipment or lightning, causing a restaurant to explode. 21 people were killed, 15 more were injured, and six buildings were destroyed. [44] September 7 – A gas pipeline being tested in Detroit, Michigan exploded and burned, injuring one person, and destroying 50 cars. [45]
October 14 - The Harvard Center for International Affairs is bombed by The Proud Eagle Tribe of Weather (later renamed the Women's Brigade of the Weather Underground). [20] WUO claims this is to protest the war in Vietnam. [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30] The bombing was in reaction to Angela Davis' arrest and was the first action undertaken by an all ...
Training for mine rescuers conducted aboveground A video describing challenges experienced by mine rescue personnel. Mine rescue or mines rescue is the specialised job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in underground mines because of mining accidents, roof falls or floods and disasters such as explosions.
The 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash was a U.S. military nuclear accident in which a Cold War bomber's vertical stabilizer broke off in winter storm turbulence. [3] The two nuclear bombs being ferried were found "relatively intact in the middle of the wreckage", according to a later U.S. Department of Defense summary, [4] and after Fort Meade's 28th Ordnance Detachment secured them, [5] the ...
Get the Helena, MT local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in New York City, United States.Members of the Weather Underground (Weathermen), an American leftist militant group, were making bombs in the basement of 18 West 11th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, when one of them exploded.