BREAKING: Fermosa Chemical Plant explosion in Texas

A flash fire at Formosa Plastics in Calhoun County seriously injured at least 12 workers Thursday afternoon at the plant.

Emergency officials from several agencies converged on the chemical plant, 102 Pease St., in Point Comfort about 2 p.m. after the fire ignited.

Five of the wounded workers were transported to Citizens Medical Center in Victoria – four by ambulance and one by private vehicle – with varying injuries after the fire.

Three [...]

The heart-wrenching moment a mother who gave birth to twins just hours before contracting flesh-eating bacteria is reunited with her babies a month later in hospital

Lana Kuykendall’s infection grew one quarter of an inch in an hour
She was home from the maternity ward for just 13 hours before she returned to the hospital
Unable to care for her children as she fights for her life in intensive care unit

The South Carolina mother fighting off a ‘flesh-eating’ bacterial infection has been upgraded to fair condition and held her month-old twins for the first time since her treatment [...]

Fears for girl, 24, who got flesh-eating bacteria on zip-slide as she is critical condition after having her fingers and foot amputated

Aimee Copeland, 24, now listed in critical condition
Had surgeries to remove hands and right foot on Saturday

Graduate infected with killer bug through deep cut in zip line accident

 

A young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacterial infection is in critical condition at Augusta Hospital.

Aimee Copeland had both her hands and her one remaining foot amputated in a major operation on Saturday.

Surgeons had previously amputated the 24-year-old’s left leg at the hip.

‘All I [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Hospital spokeswoman: Former Sen. George McGovern hospitalized for fatigue in South Dakota

Alaskan grizzly with cub attacks group of teens taking part in a survival course, badly mauling two:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A grizzly bear that was with her cub attacked several teens participating in a survival skills course in remote wilderness in Alaska, badly mauling two in the group, state troopers said Sunday.

The teens were among seven students participating in a 30-day backcountry course by the National Outdoor Leadership School when the attack occurred Saturday night in [...]

Update: More than 1,000 people in Joplin area have been hospitalized following tornado – Joplin Globe

JOPLIN, Mo. — Joplin officials are putting the fatality count from Sunday’s tornado at 116 as of this afternoon, but the death toll is still expected to climb. More than 1,000 people have been transported to area hospitals since the storm hit.

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More than 1,150 people have been treated for injuries stemming from the tornado that struck Joplin at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

Freeman Health System in Joplin treated [...]