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The Astoria Borealis was an industrial accident that occurred at a Con Edison substation in Astoria, Queens, New York City, on December 27, 2018. During the incident, a 138,000 volt coupling capacitor potential device failed, resulting in an arc flash , which in turn burned aluminum , lighting up the sky with a blue-green spectacle visible for ...
February 18 – Manhattan State Hospital fire in New York City, killed 25. [16] 17 May – Cleveland School fire, Camden, South Carolina, killed 77. 31 May – Petrograd Opera House fire in St. Petersburg, Russia, killed and injured "many" people (it is unknown exactly how many victims there were). [17]
Longtang Reservoir fire (under-construction) 197, 86 [9] Fire started when all the staff were attending a meeting. 5 January 1960, Tongren, Guizhou: Tongren Airport fire (under-construction) [10] 175, 5: A fire broke out during construction at the Tongren Fenghuang Airport. It is the deadliest airport fire in China. 8 January 1965, Yuli, Xinjiang
A military megaproject, the nuclear base is located near what is now suburban Fuling, a municipality in Chongqing, China. In 2010, it was opened to Chinese tourists. It is a distinct network of nuclear-weapons manufacturing tunnels to the likewise defunct Underground Project 131 and the still operational "Underground Great Wall of China."
But as a city, we need to look up from the phones that desensitize us. When a psychotic homeless man with multiple arrests pushed Michelle Go in front of a train at the Times Square Station in ...
The fire began in the plant's first lithium-ion battery energy storage system which went online at the end of 2020 and was expanded in 2023, becoming the world's largest at the time, according to ...
The fire was said to have been caused by a hot bulb which fell and struck cardboard inside of the building, igniting the structure, although this has not been confirmed. Subsequently, a thick ash cloud extended 30 mi (48 km) south of the accident site, viewable from Canada, Eden, New York , and weather radars . [ 2 ]
A state of emergency was in effect in Engels, a city of 200,000 people some 730 km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow, after the blaze spread and two firefighters died trying to put it out ...