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Disasters
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Teams bring help and a prayer
California | Local |
November 25, 2008
When they respond to disasters, chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team usually encounter throngs of desperate victims. Read more
Friday, November 21, 2008
An African magnet of misery
World |
November 21, 2008
This might be the unluckiest city in the world, a onetime resort playground for the wealthy doomed by a string of human and natural disasters that recall biblical scourges. Read more
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
L.A. disasters test Villaraigosa’s crisis management skills
California | Local |
November 18, 2008
In three months, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has become a continual crisis manager, as his city has been buffeted by one disaster after another. Read more
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Chaos erupts from pair of blazes
California | Local |
November 16, 2008
Their neighborhood was deserted. Read more
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Slide buried woman’s past and her future
World |
November 11, 2008
Her suitor had the ring, but she lost her dowry. Read more
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Fire closes parts of 210 and 118 in the San Fernando Valley
California | Local |
October 15, 2008
Sections of two freeways remain closed in the San Fernando Valley because of fires that have burned more than 10,000 acres. Read more
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Twin blazes sweep Valley slopes
California | Local |
October 14, 2008
With treacherous Santa Ana winds as their bellows, twin wildfires raced through populated canyons, forests and brushlands on the northern fringes of the San Fernando Valley, claiming at least one life and 49 structures, and prompting authorities to suggest a hair-raising, worst-case scenario – that one of the blazes, which began near Porter Ranch, could burn all the way to the Pacific Ocean about 15 miles away. Read more
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Hurricane Ike cuts a fickle path
National |
September 14, 2008
Hurricane Ike swallowed Dawn Demers’ four-bedroom home so completely that she couldn’t even see her rooftop as she stood marooned on a bridge, staring at brown floodwaters and trying not to weep. Read more
Monday, September 1, 2008
Ensuring proper coverage can keep a firm afloat in a disaster
Business |
September 1, 2008
Small-business owners dealing with damage caused by Hurricane Gustav or Tropical Storm Fay – or this summer’s Midwest flooding or California wildfires – probably are feeling some regret because they didn’t have adequate insurance coverage. Read more
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Survivor of K2 avalanche limps into camp
World |
August 6, 2008
The last survivor of a mountaineering disaster on K2 limped into base camp on frostbitten feet. Read more
Monday, July 28, 2008
Distraction a good thing after a trauma
Health |
July 28, 2008
Common to all disasters is that shock and denial are normal reactions, a way for people to protect themselves, at least for a short while, from terrible reality. Read more
Friday, July 18, 2008
Bush visits fire-blackened forests, extols federal efforts
California | Local |
July 18, 2008
President Bush toured the front lines of Northern California’s historic wildfires Thursday to buck up the troops and extol his administration’s efforts to wage war on the flames. Read more
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Push is on to stall Goleta fire before winds; more evacuations at Big Sur
California | Local |
July 3, 2008
A fire has reached as close as 2 miles to populated areas of Goleta today after burning through 200 to 300 acres in Los Padres National Forest since Tuesday evening, authorities said. Read more
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Midwest flood woes head south
National |
June 18, 2008
With floodwaters receding in much of Iowa, the destruction moved downstream Tuesday as emergency crews and residents raced to bolster the levees that protect dozens of Mississippi River towns. Read more
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Hope drains from Iowa town
National |
June 17, 2008
White was the color everyone wanted to see. Read more
Monday, June 16, 2008
China flood toll increases to 70
World |
June 16, 2008
The death toll rose Sunday to at least 70 people as pounding weekend rains flooded wide areas of southern China and added to the misery of a nation already racked by natural disasters this year. Read more
Friday, June 13, 2008
A drill, then the real thing
National |
June 13, 2008
The mess hall at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch was still standing Thursday, its wood and metal tables still neatly lined up. Read more
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Schools reopen in key Myanmar city
World |
June 3, 2008
Most schools reopened Monday in and around Yangon, despite the concerns of some teachers, parents and international aid groups about safety risks to students from damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Nargis. Read more
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Shaken to his foundations
World |
May 29, 2008
Images run through my mind when I’m brave enough to let them in like the click-click of an old slide projector. Read more
Saturday, May 17, 2008
China’s old ways shaken by quake
World |
May 17, 2008
In a system with a centuries-long tradition of austere leaders laying down the law from behind their palace walls, China’s response to its worst natural disaster in three decades has revealed a nation in the throes of political change. Read more
