Three people have died after several days of heavy storms that sent rivers flooding over their banks across southern France, causing 'significant damage', as the violent weather sweeps across Europe. French rescue workers have carried out nearly 1,800 operations since Sunday, Christophe Castaner said in a statement, after eight departments were placed on high alert for flash floods. He did not provide details on when or how the deaths occurred, but an interior ministry official said they were in the Herault, Gard and Pyrenees-Orientales departments. ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
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Hundreds of California residents have been forced to evacuate after a wind-driven wildfire spread overnight as 500,000 people are left without power in the Golden State's second planned blackout in two weeks. Electrical equipment was blamed for setting severalโฆ
Hundreds of California residents have been forced to evacuate after a wind-driven wildfire spread overnight as 500,000 people are left without power in the Golden State's second planned blackout in two weeks. The National Weather Service (NWS) says winds around the highest areas of Sonoma County have been blowing at speeds up to 70mph, and elsewhere in the region there are winds between 30mph and 50mph. According to dispatch reports, the Kincade fire spread to about 1,000 acres by 11pm Wednesday night. As of Thursday morning, Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, says the blaze near Geyserville has grown to 10,000 acres and has no containment. All residents of Geyserville were ordered to evacuate. Geyserville has about 900 residents and is a popular stop for wine country tourists. The Sonoma County sheriff's office confirmed that residents had to flee their homes overnight due to the blaze. ๐ฅ๐ฑ
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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! At least five people have been killed and nine more injured after a car ran a red light at a high speed at a busy crossroad in China. The car, said to be travelling like a bullet, rammed into pedestrians before hitting cyclists and vehicles when it ploughed through the crossing this morning. The driver, 63-year-old Chen, was injured and being rescued in hospital, said police who are investigating the case. ๐ฑ
Severe lung illnesses linked to vaping have claimed the lives of 34 people in the US, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday. A total of 1,604 cases of the condition officials have dubbed 'EVALI,' for e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung illness, have been confirmed, with patients in every state but Alaska. Most of the victims are young adults or teenagers, though the range of ages spans from 17 to 75. Officials from the CDC, FDA and state health departments are still racing to identify what, exactly, about e-cigarettes is making people deathly ill but, as most victims reported using THC vapes, experts have warned against using these products. ๐ฌโ ๏ธ #vaping
Bed Bath & Beyond pulls black pumpkins with white mouths after New York law firm's Halloween display draws blackface complaints. The company was forced to act after some residents in Nyack, New York objected to a display of three jack-o'-lanterns on a porch outside a law firm there. Law firm partner Mary Marzolla says the pumpkins were never meant to offend anyone and the firm represents people 'of all colors and faiths'. Bed Bath & Beyond apologized, saying any offense was unintentional and that it 'immediately removed' the pumpkins from sale. ๐ #facepalm #Halloween #NY
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Authorities in Mexico City have suspended a police officer after he was seen in conversation with the fugitive leader of a notorious drug ring - just days before cops launched a huge raid on the gang's drug labs. Social media video showed soldiers in battle gear brandishing assault rifles alongside armored vehicles and police trucks blocking an intersection and highway before the sunrise on Tuesday. Omar Garcia, Mexico City's public security secretary, said two laboratories used to produce synthetic drugs and 50 kilos of chemical precursors were seized during the raid. ๐ฎ๐ปโโ๏ธ
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(WARNING 21+) The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has released the body camera footage from the October 14th Officer-involved shooting that left an Athens woman dead. According to the department, at approximately 10:15 am on October 14th Senior Police Officer Lamar Glenn responded to a call of a suspicious person in the 100 block of Chalfont Drive. The caller stated the woman was armed with a gun and a knife. The video shows the officer arriving and 54-year old Bonny Thomas appears to be waving him down. Thomas has a butcher knife in her hand and the other concealed under her shirt. Glenn moves to the back of his vehicle while commanding her to drop the knife. He fires one shot, hitting her in the torso. According to a release from the department, once additional officers arrived, they perform first aid on Thomas until EMS arrived. Thomas was taken to a local hospital, where she later died from her injuries. The GBI is investigating the shooting. ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ปโโ๏ธ#shooting
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Hundreds of California residents have been forced to evacuate after a wind-driven wildfire spread overnight as 500,000 people are left without power in the Golden State's second planned blackout in two weeks. The National Weather Service (NWS) says winds aroundโฆ
Los Angeles area residents ran for their lives on Thursday evening as wildfires, whipped up by strong winds, reached residential neighborhoods, forcing 50,000 evacuations and burning six homes. Two blazes are threatening LA, while another has taken hold in Sonoma County in California's wine country, where 16,000 acres are burning. Two other fires are moving across the center of the state. Pacific Gas & Electric said it has discovered a problem with a transmission tower in Sonoma - but that it was too early to say if it was the cause of the blaze. The company had cut power in anticipation of high winds, but left live sections of high-voltage transmission lines, which were blamed for a series of deadly blazes that tore through the same area two years ago, killing 44 people. In Northern California, a fire near the wine country town of Geyserville burned 49 buildings. ๐ฅ๐ฑ