0 Crime & Safety The owners of the Gage Street building and other Worcester rental properties had fires, unpermitted work and more, city records show. Neal McNamara , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply 5 Eastern Ave. was badly damaged in the May 14 fire. The foundation of the former 2 Gage St. building is in the foreground. 2 Gage St. was torn down in the weeks after the May 14 fire. All that remains is the foundation and some rubble. WORCESTER, MA — The Worcester apartment building where four people died in a May fire had a history of health and safety code violations — including previous fires and alarms missing from areas where tenants smoked — according to documents provided by the city and former tenants. Huanchen Li and Wendy Wang oversee four properties in Worcester, including ones along John Street, Rena Street, Eastern Avenue and Gage Street — the six-family … [Read more...] about Worcester Gage St. Fire: Many Code Violations Preceded Deadly Blaze
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Electra Fire updates: Firefighters get some control, but threat to ‘critical power infrastructure’ in California remains
LATEST July 6, 7:30 a.m. With weather conditions improving, firefighters started to gain control of the Electra Fire in California's Amador County in the last 24 hours. By the end of the day Tuesday, containment stood at 5%, and on Wednesday morning, it was 10%, Cal Fire said . The fire didn't grow overnight and was still 3,900 acres on Wednesday morning. There are still 1,217 structures threatened. Cal Fire said in its Wednesday morning incident report that the fire stayed active over the first half of the night with some upslope runs, but calmed later in the evening and early this morning. "Firefighters are working to strengthen control lines," Cal Fire said . National Weather Service forecaster Eric Kurth said humidity levels over the fire increased late last night. "We got more of a delta flow with some of the marine air moving in," Kurth said. "Even some of that delta stratus has come in. There was moisture in the air. One spot near the fire was at 90% … [Read more...] about Electra Fire updates: Firefighters get some control, but threat to ‘critical power infrastructure’ in California remains
Why Are All Our Celebs Getting Paranormal-Pilled?
Is there something in the water? Should we all be grabbing our tinfoil hats and heading for a fallout shelter or a bunker somewhere in the woods? What is it, exactly, that’s suddenly got all of our celebrities so obsessed with ghosts and aliens? Well, OK, maybe not all our celebrities. But one by one, a growing handful of A-listers have professed their interest in the occult. None of us batted an eye when William Shatner announced The UnXplained back in 2019, but flash-forward a few years and throw in a Netflix licensing deal, and suddenly a History Channel original is sitting at third on Netflix’s trending titles list for the week . The erstwhile Captain Kirk isn’t the only celeb commanding this space, either. Vanessa Hudgens recently told Kelly Clarkson about coming to terms with her ability to see and hear ghosts. (Has she enlisted a few of them to keep her booked and busy with Netflix deals and MTV hosting gigs? Seems that way! ) Kesha, who already explores the … [Read more...] about Why Are All Our Celebs Getting Paranormal-Pilled?
Ghost blimp’s enduring mystery: How did crew vanish before Bay Area crash?
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 Shortly before noon on an August Sunday in 1942, a solitary bather on a beach near Fort Funston looked up to see a strange sight. A Navy blimp was approaching the beach at extremely low elevation. As the observer looked on in consternation, the 147-foot-long dirigible touched down on the beach, rose briefly into the air, then smashed into a hill, bending the propellers of its starboard engine and dislodging one of its 325-pound depth charges, which rolled down the hill and out of sight. Now considerably lighter, the sagging, V-shaped blimp — one observer said it looked like a “doubled-up wiener” — rose into the air and drifted inland, passing over astonished golfers on the Olympic Club golf course. It sailed over the southern end of Lake Merced, then past what is now the Daly City BART Station, and crossed Mission Street near the top of the hill. Hundreds of people began … [Read more...] about Ghost blimp’s enduring mystery: How did crew vanish before Bay Area crash?
Boating Accident in Tennessee Lake Kills 2 Children
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A small boat carrying six people sank in a lake Wednesday, killing two children, authorities said. Fire officials initially reported that six children and two adults were aboard the boat on Robco Lake in south Memphis near the Mississippi state line, but police later said there were four children and two adults aboard. The first number may have included swimmers from shore attempting to rescue the victims, police said. The boat overturned and began sinking about 50 yards from shore, authorities said. An 11-year-old girl was underwater for about 30 minutes before a firefighter pulled her off the bottom of the lake. She and a 10-year-old boy were taken to a hospital, where they were later pronounced dead, police said. Five other people were taken to the hospital, including a rescuer who swam from shore, authorities said. Their identities and conditions were not released, nor were the identities … [Read more...] about Boating Accident in Tennessee Lake Kills 2 Children
Park rangers in California help revive man at beach
close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for July 6 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! National Park Service (NPS) rangers helped to rescue a man from northern California's South Beach. The agency said Tuesday that at approximately 12:30 p.m. PDT the park was notified by the Marin County Sheriff's Department that an adult male was reported to be unresponsive after being found face down in the surf. He had been surfing there with friends who pulled him from the water and began CPR. The NPS said that rangers responded to the scene and took over patient care, eventually detecting a pulse and that the victim was breathing. PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN GORED BY BUFFALO IN YELLOWSTONE, 2ND VISITOR THIS WEEK A view of Point Reyes National Seashore's Kehoe Beach is seen in Inverness, Calif., on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (Jane … [Read more...] about Park rangers in California help revive man at beach