evacuations

avid_creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Evacuations are underway in a Louisiana town following a chemical leak and a fire at a refinery, officials said. Marathon Petroleum said crews are responding to a release of naphtha — a flammable liquid that can be used as fuel — and a fire at a storage tank at its […]

Spokane Valley Fire Department (SPOKANE, Wash.) — Evacuations are in place as three wildfires burn in eastern Washington state, officials said. The largest of the blazes — known as the Gray Fire, located in and around Medical Lake in Spokane County — has burned approximately 9,500 acres and is 0% contained, according to the Washington State […]

Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A freight train derailed in a fiery crash near a small town in Minnesota early Thursday, forcing residents to evacuate as a precaution, officials said. The incident was reported at around 1 a.m. CT. Multiple tankers of a train operated by BNSF Railway derailed and caught fire […]