Tampa Mayor Jane Castor issued a blunt warning to those who are not heeding evacuation orders as Hurricane Milton barrels toward the west central coast of Florida, making it clear to those residents that they cannot compete with catastrophic storm surge, putting it this way: Your home will be your coffin.
The Park Fire is taking a toll on Northern California, as it is now one of the biggest wildfires in the state’s history.
The Israel Defense Forces accused Hamas terrorists of attacking an evacuation corridor established by Israel to allow civilians in Gaza to flee the conflict.
Israel’s Health Ministry said the W.H.O has “perversely twisted” Israel’s evacuation efforts “in service of Hamas’s efforts to continue their use of Gaza’s civilians as human shields.”
Some 19,000 people have been evacuated from the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires continued burning for a sixth day.
The Sudanese army said it was coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from the United States, UK, China and France out of the country.
As tensions remain high, the Finnish Defence Forces are preparing to evacuate residents along the Russian border in case of war.
Weather conditions have caused wildfires to spread in Texas, resulting in evacuations of some communities, but so far no one was reported injured on Friday.
Colorado’s wildfires are shaping up to be the most destructive fires in state history in terms of property damage, according to reports.
The State Department delayed the start of the non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) aimed at rescuing U.S. citizens and Afghan allies seeking to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last month, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, indicated Tuesday.
The Biden team is working to provide health insurance to Afghan evacuees granted “humanitarian parole” to enter U.S.
At least 500 Americans are reportedly stranded in Afghanistan, contradicting President Joe Biden’s estimate of between 100 and 200, according to the Associated Press (AP) on Sunday.
In his first address to the American people after completely pulling out of Afghanistan, President Joe Biden admitted he was leaving ten percent of Americans, who the United States intended to evacuate, in the country now controlled by a jihadist organization.
Jens Stoltenberg, head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), called on nations to continue the effort to rescue their citizens from the grip of the Taliban on Thursday following multiple bombings at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The bipartisan 58-member House Problem Solvers Caucus demanded Wednesday evening President Joe Biden to extend the Taliban-Enforced deadline extension.
Secretary of State Blinken told reporters that the U.S. has no idea exactly how many Americans are seeking to leave Afghanistan.
A “cohort” of Republican and Democrat House members reportedly intend to help extract evacuees from Afghanistan.
Twenty American students and 16 parents are stranded in Afghanistan, unable to reach the extraction point at the Kabul airport upon concluding their summer vacation.
Thousands of Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan with the Taliban-enforced withdrawal deadline in five days looming over the Biden and Harris Administration.
The Taliban gave “no” evacuation deadline extensions on Tuesday to the Biden and Harris administration after the CIA negotiated with Taliban leader.
President Joe Biden could activate the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). United States airline companies have been put on alert since Friday that the CRAF is a possibility, according to multiple reports.
President Biden on Friday said his administration is in “constant contact with the Taliban” and claimed to be focused on getting Americans out of the country, although he said he cannot promise that it will come “without risk of loss” despite his assertion that his administration warned the jihadist organization that any attack on U.S. forces, or disruption of U.S. operations at the airport, will be met with “swift and forceful response.”
President Joe Biden tried on Friday to reassure Americans remaining in Afghanistan that he would get them home to the United States but also admitted he could not guarantee the mission would be a success.
President Joe Biden on Friday is reportedly waiving coronavirus test requirements from potentially infected evacuees in Afghanistan, a “hotspot” for the Chinese coronavirus.
An immigration lawyer shares how helpless he feels in assisting clients who have been stuck in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over.
The Associated Press revealed Thursday “up to 15,000 Americans remain in Afghanistan” after the country’s collapse Sunday.
Police cleared 1,436 migrants from a makeshift migrant camp in northern Paris this week in what marks the 60th ejection of migrants from the area since 2015.
Local authorities have ordered evacuations in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in areas below mountains and hillsides that were burned in the recent Thomas fire, as the winter’s first major rainstorm approaches California.
Downtown Santa Barbara, normally a vibrant holiday destination, is virtually empty as residents have evacuated the area ahead of the advancing Thomas fire, which continues to spread west, though firefighters are making progress.
The Oroville Dam crisis temporarily subsided Sunday night, as 188,000 residents downriver were evacuated, but the crisis will return with northern California expecting seven straight days of warm rain from another Pineapple Express beginning Wednesday evening.
The California Department of Water Resources issued a sudden evacuation order shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday for residents near the Oroville Dam in northern California, warning that the dam’s emergency spillway would fail in the next 60 minutes.
Convoys of evacuees travelled from a rebel-held area of Aleppo and two Shiite villages besieged by insurgents on Monday, a war monitor and rebels said, as a deal enabling evacuations held after a tense, days-long stand-off and before a UN vote.
275 structures have been destroyed or damaged in the 45,388 acre Erskine wildfire that continued sweeping through California’s Central Valley on Monday — while some evacuations were lifted for some of the area’s residents.
Two more southern California fires sprung up on Monday, burning over 5,000 acres in the San Gabriel Mountains by Tuesday morning and raising the total number of firefighters battling the state’s six active wildfires to over 4,700.
A massive fire with 150-foot flames that were visible from 20 miles away caused home evacuations but no injuries in the rural South Texas community of Cuero.
