Disasters

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported that it received several 911 calls just before 7:30 p.m. about a plane crash about 3 miles west of Alexandria.
2 children, great-grandmother perish in California wildfire
The death count from a rapidly growing northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead.
'Terrifying' tornadoes of flame burn California city; 2 dead
A wildfire that roared with little warning into a Northern California city claimed two lives as thousands of people scrambled to escape before the walls of flames descended from forested hills onto their neighborhoods, officials said Friday.
NTSB: Recordings show change in weather before boat sank
Video and audio recordings from a fatal tourist boat accident in Missouri show that the lake went from calm to deadly dangerous in a matter of minutes, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
Huge flood from failed dam in Laos has now spread to Cambodia
The flooding has killed at least 27 people in Laos. In Cambodia, the Sekong River rose to nearly 12 meters (almost 40 feet) on Thursday -- a height that flooded 17 villages.
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The official Lao news agency KPL said the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in Attapeu province collapsed Monday evening, releasing large amounts of water that swept away houses and made more than more than 6,600 people homeless.