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“Intersec 2008 will have an impressive lineup of speakers comprising international experts, Civil Defence and Police officials, industry leaders and suppliers of specialized equipment for the industries related to fire, industrial and occupational safety and health,” said Angela Schierholz, Senior Show Manager of Messe Frankfurt, the trade fair organizer. “The fair is an international meeting place in the Middle East which is being supported by Dubai Police, Dubai Civil Defence, Institution of...

Still, Alger said, "there was hope these people barricaded themselves in" and were surviving on stored oxygen canisters and fresh air pumped into the working face.

BENTONVILLE - Residents want to pick up the remains of Monday night's storm strewed across their yard but even that comes with a price some cannot afford.

BENTONVILLE - Residents want to pick up the remains of Monday night's storm strewed across their yard but even that comes with a price some cannot afford.

BOYERTOWN, Pa. - Panic spread through the audience as quickly as the flames devouring the highly flammable stage curtains.

As you read this, it may be sunny and warm. A lot can change in a week. But under last weekend's dark and dripping skies, you probably watched the burnt-off hillside above your home with some trepidation. If those periods of hard rain had lasted for hours instead of minutes, your home might have been in trouble. Many other local homes were in the same situation - and continue to be. Given enough rain, in a short enough period of time, flooding and mudslides could reach disastrous proportions, r...

Gov. Mike Beebe on Friday declared five counties state disaster areas because of storm damage earlier this week.

As evidence that the U.S. military ???surge??? in Iraq is working continues to mount, some ultra-liberals are working overtime to declare defeat in that conflict ??” notwithstanding the fact that some of their campaign pledges could put more American troops at risk.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Gov. Daniels says the state plans to seek federal disaster aid for a wide area of flood-ravaged northern Indiana.

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Nebraska and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm during the period of December 10-12, 2007.