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Vladivostok. January 2006. A nine-floor office building. The last three floors are occupied by the Sberbank. At about 12 o'clock a fire started between the sixth and seventh floors. There was no alarm...
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27 August 2000. At 15:08 in the control center if the Metropolitan Fire Service a message arrives about a fire in the antenna part of the Ostankino TV tower. 10 minutes later the firemen are on the sc...
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The Norwegian fishing vessel Kadima was hit by an 8 magnitude storm in the Atlantic Ocean and did not survive. Water quickly started to fill up the holds, and the ship quickly started to sink, giving ...
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September 27, 1994. The Ferryboat "Estonia" was sailing on its usual route - from Tallinn to Stockholm. On board were more than one thousand people. That night there was a storm on the Baltic Sea. A s...
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Fires are the second biggest cause, after storms, of shipping disasters. Ships, being complex and formidable mechanisms are often not upgraded for decades. Usually only when something gets broken, as ...
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In September 1999, in Moscow there were a number of horrific attacks. September 8, at 00:10 a.m. the duty officer at EMERCOM received information about an explosion and fire in a residential building ...
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In September 1999, in Moscow there were a number of horrific attacks. An explosion of building Number 6/3 on Kashira Highway on September 13, at 5 a.m. in the morning. This time no one doubted that th...
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Moscow. August 8, 2000. The underground crossing in the metro Pushkinskaya subway station. People were coming back home from work. The time was two minutes before six. At this moment an explosion went...
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January 10, 2008, the largest highway in The U.S. was blocked with an unprecedented traffic accident. Early in the morning, more than 200 machines ran into each other on the highway in the state of Fl...
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Nearly one hundred vehicles collided on a highway in the western part of the sate of Maryland, in the U.S.A.As a result, two people were killed, 80 suffered injuries of various severity. Cars and truc...
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On a Sunday morning in April on a highway near the city of Barcelona, in the province of Anzo?tegui, in the north-east of Venezuela, there was yet a terrible road accident with loss of life.
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The accident happened on Thursday on the main highway between Toronto and Montreal. Heavy snowfall had reduced visibility to 300 meters. Due to the ice, a trailer truck jackknifed and blocked the way....
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The Strait of Kerch. It connects the Azov and the Black Seas. On November 11, 2007 near the Russian port of "Kavkaz" there were fifty nine vessels. A third of them oil tankers. That day the Strait of ...
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In Russia, the oil pipeline situation is getting worse. Oil, somewhere or other, is always leaking from old pipes, poisoning the land and water. Bashkiria is no exception. Repairs were underway on a p...
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October 1999. For almost a week a cyclone raged in Mexico, spawning storms which caused huge downpours. The amount of rainfall that week was several times higher than the annual norm. Dozens of small ...
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In 2001, the majority of Australians were not been able to properly celebrate their Christmas holidays. The south of the country was covered by fire. About 5 thousand firefighters were battling the bl...
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January 2000. At a gold mine, located in Romania, there was the largest mining environmental disaster in the history of Europe. Into the Danube and Tisa Rivers about 100 thousand tons of industrial wa...
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On March 24, 1989 the ""Exxon Valdiz"" oil tanker crashed. The vessel went off course and smashed into a reef. The resulting holes in the shipped caused 50 thousand tons of oil to spill into the water...
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August 6, 2002. The Black Sea coast is hit by heavy rains. In the first few hours the rainfall was equivalent to a 2 month norm. The rains continued for several days. 7.Powerful mudflows started movin...
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A freight train was moving through the Ozhigov Station in Lvov Region. In its tanks there was poisonous substance - yellow phosphorus. At 16:55 15 tanks, weighing 50 tons each were derailed and turned...
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September 2002. The wreck of a passenger train in India. The most terrible accident in the history of the country.More than a hundred people died. The tragedy occurred in the eastern state of Bihar, n...
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South-east France. June 2008. An accident at the railway tracks near the town Massongy in the Haute Saone Department. It happened at the 4 p.m. The School Bus was carrying students from the city of Ma...
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May 28, 2008. Outskirts of Boston. Evening. Rush Hour. Near Newton Station, two commuter trains collided head on. Despite the crash and the fire that broke, there were no fatalities. Most passengers e...
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The city of Lvov, July 27, 2002. The military airfield Sknylov was crowded with people who came to see an air show with military aircraft. Though, in seconds the show turned into a terrible massacre f...
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Morning of July 9, 2006. Sunday. Airbus А-310 flight 778 from Moscow lands at the airport of the city of Irkutsk.Suddenly the liner started to speed up. The runway ended and the А-310 jumped out onto ...
