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Aug 14, 2023 · Famous banyan tree and centuries-old church hit by Hawaii fires. Satellite images and before-and-after pictures show extent of damage to town of Lahaina on Maui.
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and ...
Jul 1, 2021 · More than 1,000 people living in and around Lytton, B.C., northeast of Vancouver, were forced to leave with little notice Wednesday. They raced out of town as smoke and flames virtually decimated...
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Aug 10, 2023 · More than 250 structures were damaged or destroyed, according to Maui County, as entire blocks of Lahaina − once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii − went up in smoke.
Jul 8, 2021 · CNN — Schoolteacher Katrina Sam has lived in Lytton in the Canadian province of British Columbia all her life, but a week after a disastrous wildfire, the town she grew up in is almost entirely...
Jul 1, 2024 · The city of Pompeii is famous because it was destroyed in 79 CE when a nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius, erupted, covering it in at least 19 feet (6 metres) of ash and other volcanic debris. The city’s quick burial preserved it for centuries before its ruins were discovered in the late 16th century.
Aug 11, 2023 · A man stands in a street Thursday amid the charred wreckage of the wildfire that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this week.
