OREGON – Authorities have escalated their response to the rapidly growing Hagen Fire in Umatilla County, which had burned an estimated 5,685 acres by July 21, 2026. The wildfire is burning about nine miles southwest of Tollgate in the Umatilla National Forest and has exhibited extreme behavior overnight, including numerous...
New York City and much of the Tri-State area were under a Tornado Watch until 9 p.m. Tuesday as severe thunderstorms swept through the region, prompting multiple Flash Flood Warnings. Warnings covered several New York City boroughs and nearby New Jersey and Connecticut counties, with forecasters predicting two distinct waves...
Colorado authorities have reinstated mandatory evacuations in Custer County after the Aspen Acres Wildfire rapidly intensified, burning across Pueblo and Custer counties. As of Monday afternoon, the fire has scorched about 101,546 acres, currently the largest active wildfire in the state. A rapid, wind-driven run toward Millset Ridge near the...
BAILEYVILLE, Maine – Federal investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) have detailed a series of safety failures that led to a deadly hydrogen sulfide gas release at the Woodland Pulp Mill on January 27, 2026. The incident unfolded during an overnight emergency shutdown of the...
U.S. health regulators are maintaining that shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico is the source of a large Cyclospora outbreak in five Midwestern states, despite retracting a key positive lab test. On July 21, 2026, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed that an earlier laboratory finding of Cyclospora...
ELY, Minnesota – State and federal officials reported on Monday, July 20, 2026, that nearly 25 active wildfires are burning across Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota, scorching approximately 63,000 acres in the state and an additional 8,400 acres in neighboring Ontario, Canada. The fires, which surged over the weekend...
Alexandria, Virginia authorities partially closed a key section of Duke Street on Monday, July 20, 2026, after an unknown caustic white powder spilled from a moving truck in the city’s West End, triggering a multi-hour hazardous materials response. Police and fire units responded at about 8:07 a.m. to the 5300...
A wildland fire known as the Ohio Fire has grown to about 2,000 acres northeast of Hailey, Idaho, prompting authorities to maintain Level 3 “Go Now” mandatory evacuation orders as of Monday, July 20, 2026. Ignited on Saturday afternoon off Ohio Gulch Road in Blaine County, the blaze is burning...
United States – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to raise tariffs on Canadian imports to recoup what he described as the economic costs of wildfire smoke drifting south from Canada into the United States. Posting on Truth Social, Trump called the situation “Willful Negligence” and said the “cost...
Severe thunderstorms on Friday triggered deadly flash flooding in the Cincinnati area, where the Cincinnati Fire Department confirmed one fatality and three injuries, including two people hospitalized in Fairfax. Emergency officials fielded more than 200 calls and carried out at least 40 water rescues, activating the city’s Emergency Operations Center...
