Emergency News
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In an attempt to make people aware of the indirect dangers that can result from prank calls to emergency services, the bosses of the South Western Ambulance Service have released a prank call from a man who informed them he was out of toilet paper.
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Tustin -
A California man jumped out of a moving ambulance Friday afternoon as it traveled on Interstate 5 through Orange County. He was killed after being hit by a truck.
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As the European Chairman of the Commission, Italy's new Prime Minister, Mario Monti, is facing a major emergency as he promises the financially strapped country, "rigor and fairness in sweeping reforms to dig the country out of major financial crisis."
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Washington -
The US Postal Service (USPS), faced with a looming $9.2 billion deficit, is so short of funds it cannot make a $5.5 billion payment due this month, and unless Congress implements emergency action, could face a complete shutdown by winter.
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Eighteen months after a devastating earthquake killed over 200,000 people and left over a million others homeless in Haiti, the emergency in the Caribbean country still remains, a Washington-based NGO International Action says.
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Washington -
Public confidence in the United States government's readiness to respond to a nuclear emergency is low according to a recent poll. Sixty-five percent of those surveyed felt it was at least somewhat likely a disaster situation could occur on U.S. soil.
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Victims of the recent Japan tsunami can stay in hotels and inns at the government's expense. Residents of a damaged area who are without household water can take baths in local hotels, and a Tokyo hotel postpones demolition in order to house refugees.
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Tokyo -
Rolling blackouts in the Kanto Plain, including Tokyo, will begin Monday. The schedule will be announced tonight. Two reactors in Fukushima were also damaged.
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Brisbane -
Cyclone Yasi, a monster cyclone with a core the size of France, is heading for battered Queensland. Residents in low lying areas have been urged to leave. In 2006 a smaller cyclone, Larry, devastated northern Queensland.
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Kentville -
Nova Scotians are being urged to exercise caution and monitor local weather forecasts as a storm tracks closer to the province. The storm, which will began Thursday evening, is expected to bring heavy rain and high winds to the area over the weekend.
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A drought in Paraguay has caused conditions to become so bad that the government has declared a state of emergency.
An RAF Chinook helicopter makes an emergency landing in Arizona during military exercises from a base in California.
Kazakhstan extends a state of emergency in the Caspian Sea town of Zhanaozen, President Nursultan Nazarbayev announces.
Egypt's generals say the state of emergency will be lifted partially on Wednesday, the first anniversary of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
Details emerge about the woman with whom he had an 'inappropriate relationship.'
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