Evacuation orders had already been lifted, and for more than a week, the fires have not posed a major threat. Their full containment closed a chapter on two fires that raged for days, killed at ...

The Black Hawk helicopter which collided with a passenger plane above Washington DC was training for a hypothetical evacuation of US leaders at the time, according to US officials. Three soldiers ...

As flames exploded from the parched hillsides of Eaton Canyon on Jan. 7, fire agencies faced a crisis far beyond their worst reckoning. In just a few hours, hurricane-force winds would stoke three ...

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Nearly 50 years have passed since the fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War ... Embassy in its shattering final days of desperate evacuation. We believe him, and we feel it anew.

He was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, until his 1966-67 deployment to Vietnam as an operating room nurse with the 3rd Field Hospital. He worked in several units, including the 24th Evac Hospital, ...

On Monday afternoon, the city lifted all remaining evacuation orders and dropped the escort requirement. The sun was out after the first significant storm of the season brought rain that helped ...

He also explored new products launched by the Vietnam Railways Corporation (VRC ... presents Tet gifts to patients at the National Lung Hospital. (Photo: VNA) At the National Lung Hospital ...

TAKE YOU ABOUT 12 MINUTES. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. LET’S GO TO L.A. COUNTY NOW, WHERE A FIRE HAS FORCED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO EVACUATE AS CREWS HAVE RUSHED IN TO TRY TO PROTECT HOMES ...