Nocere – Earth Disasters

Welsh Highland Railway line was experienced a fire even it was just newly extended to the area from Rhyu Ddu (near Beddgelert) since last week. North Wales Fire and Rescue service believed that the fire is caused by the spark from the train or from a discarded cigarette and no other suspicious.

The train was stopped when they saw the fire and try to put it out. They were able to stop the fire in short period with their fire service but they never expected that the fire come to the land. Mr. Hughes was able to shift the sheep to safety place but the pasture and fencing was damaged and 100 acres of SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) was destroyed. There is no injury among the 60 passengers on the train and they were sent back to Caernarfon by bus. For safety purpose, the train is stopped and canceled for the rest of day.

Mike Owen, the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service county operations Manager for south Gwynedd said he had been in consultation with respect to the potential of fire along the train track.

“Because of the nature of train mechanics and the current dry atmospheric condition, there is always have posibility of a fire being caused,” he said.

They will check back all the equipment and the staff will be interviewed to investigate the reasons of this incident. Safety of passenger is always the main priority, after the incident, the train service will stop for temporary until further notice from the train company.

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After a long time of heavy rainfall at the south part of Africa – Angola, just within one week time, the death toll of the southern Africa floods already brought up from 24 to more than 60. For the latest update, the insanely flood already cause the total death toll come up to 145 and hundreds of thousands of people are affected by this disaster. The aid workers and officials are still worrying that the water will still move toward the south and cross the boundary of Namibia, where the death toll of this country already come to 85. The countries that affected most by this floods are Angola, Namibia and Zambia and total of 781 000 people lose their home and also suffering from the damages that bring by this disaster.
Besides, the disaster and the months of heavy rains also rise up the fear of water-borne diseases. So far there are nearly 500 cases of cholera are reported in Angola in this year.
The rains and floods were estimated will be carry on until middle of May.

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The central Abruzzo region was affected by the 6.3-magnitude earthquake on April 6 which killed 294 people. It dismantled or damaged tens of thousands of homes and many other buildings.

Among the 1,467 constructions that checked over since last Monday, 53 percent of these buildings were considered as inhabitable, whereas the remaining had varied levels of damage that made them at least temporarily uninhabitable. For all these damages, they need at minimum $16 billion as reconstructing.

Now there still approximately 55,000 people forced out by this disaster — around 33,000 of who are living in the camps that set up at the area. However, the related officials say they intent to get victims out of the tent cities before following winter, which is very frosty in the hilly Abruzzo area.

Thus far, the government also barred all the payments upon mortgages and loans till the end of the year. And also it’s authorized subsidies for families and business possessors. Also, Berlusconi, who has visited the quake-hit area, is anticipated to conduct a emblematic Cabinet meeting in L’Aquila following week where this is one of the method to signalize the government’s carrying on their promised.
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