This is the measure of last resort and given the extreme nature of what is being forecasted we think this is the appropriate approach from a Risk Reduction perspective to again ensure the continued safety of our customers and our communities. Were now just 2 hours away from the beginning of a massive power shut off across the bay area. Pg e is set to turn off the power to about 800,000 customers the earliest shut down set to begin at midnight and continue in phases. Thanks for joining us at 10, im can one and im pam moore, the power shut off coms as the bay area remains in extreme fire danger right now. Firefighters are at the scene of a vegetation fire mill valley, the Mill Valley Fire Department tweeted out this photograph uh what is being called the firm fire. This fire is burning at the top of fernwood and in and firefighters say that it has been highly visible from highway one oh one the good news at this hour. Fire crews say full what progress has been stopped no evacuation order
Ones have died. Exhaustion is beginning to wear indias doctors down. A few weeks ago, it had seemed as though the capital was coping with the pandemic but once again now, resources are falling short. Now we are seeing a second surge which is notjust in delhi, but from smaller towns around delhi. Those we are not able to provide the life support systems will die. If we have to, if we reach a point like that that is what worries me, that is what distresses all of us as doctors. This 42 year old succumbed to covid earlier this week. He died in pune, a relatively smaller city which is now the worst affected in india. His family says theres a shortage of facilities. If an ambulance had been available to take him to a Critical Care hospital, my brother would have been alive, his sister says. Indias doing more than a million tests a day but thats not been enough to curb the spread. Another lockdown is not an option for an economy already in turmoil. The government has been highlighting that t
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Before it was forced to close over its “intolerable” treatment of animals, the Islamabad Zoo was home to neglected elephants and underfed lions pacing back and forth behind the bars of their enclosures. Now, four years later, it is a rehabilitation centre for Pakistani wildlife, providing a refuge for motherless leopard cubs, […]
Islamabad (AFP) April 25, 2024 - Before it was forced to close over its intolerable treatment of animals, the Islamabad Zoo was home to neglected elephants and underfed lions pacing back and forth behind the bars of their enclosures.