Emergencies news headlines

Three children were sitting on a playground bench in the northeastern United States when the tree bough dropped on them.

Dean Heasman, 28, is alleged to be solely responsible for the fire that killed three children and injured four others.

More than 50 fire trucks rushed to battle an out-of-control blaze sparked by a chemical explosion at a Derrimut factory yesterday.

The child was taken by the 4.2 metre-long reptile while swimming with her family at Mango Creek near Nganmarriyanga.

The state's counter-terrorism team are investigating the matter while the boy undergoes a mental health assessment.

Startling data from NSW Ambulance revealed that in 2023 thousands of calls were made to Triple Zero that were either hoaxes or for trivial matters.

Three women were killed in the collision with a towed caravan on the Bruce Highway yesterday.

Some 200 people were aboard the Eurocity train when the accident took place shortly after 5pm (1am AEST) near the town of Nove Zamky, police and the Slovak railway company ZSSK said.

A technical fault is being blamed for the mid-air emergency that left 17 people requiring hospitalisation.

The state's chief minister has vowed that such crimes 'will be suppressed with an iron fist'.

The man aged in his 30s was surfing at Snapper Rocks at around 9am today when he wiped out and was speared into a shallow seabank.

Actor Ian McKellen is expected to make a full recovery after he toppled off a London stage on Monday during a fight scene and was hospitalised, a spokesperson said.

Police issued an alert earlier this morning amid fears the four-week-old boy was at significant risk.

Qantas says the aircraft landed normally in Sydney and is being inspected by engineers.

It's feared the casualty list could grow, with dozens reported wounded.

He was an innocent passenger in an Uber when police allege a man in a stolen car ran a red light and ploughed into the rideshare car at high speed.

Remarkable, firefighters had installed smoke alarms at the property during a safety visit last week.

An idyllic Mediterranean island has become a disaster zone after the floor suddenly gave way beneath the tourists.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged after a fatal Australia Day boat crash in southern Sydney.

The emergency services watching the landing burst into applause when it was confirmed nobody had been hurt.

The "adventurous pup" had slid about five to eight metres below ground, rescuers said.

The huge storms left buildings crumpled, cars flipped over and thousands of people without power.

Two mates are tonight thankful they're alive after making an incredible dash from danger by jumping out of the way of a truck driving straight towards them. 

Five military horses bolted during routine exercises near King Charles III's main residence, injuring at least four people and colliding with vehicles.

A US Navy and Coast Guard operation on Tuesday rescued three mariners stranded on a tiny Pacific Ocean islet for more than a week after the trio spelled out "HELP" using palm fronds laid on a white-sand beach.

Schools have been closed amid plunging air quality in the Central American nation.

She was freed by firefighters after a 30-minute ordeal before being treated in hospital.

The mammoth job is expected to last all week, following the death of six workers in the dramatic accident.

A man has died after falling at a waterfall in Far North Queensland.

Divers reported visibility beneath the Patapsco River is less than a metre as a huge recovery operation continues.

The deadly wall of snow collapsed on an off-piste area of the Riffelberg, below the famed Matterhorn peak.

Sparks could be seen flying from beneath the plane's fuselage as it landed on the runway without its landing gear deployed.

Heavily armed police cordoned off the lower secondary school, with some 800 students, in the city of Vantaa.

When a ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its catastrophic collapse, that day led to a shocking brush with death.

Clearing the channel will allow the search for the missing victims to continue and reopen a port critical to the local and national economies.

While human-made climate change has spurred more erratic weather globally, there is something else parching southern Africa this year.

"The whole bridge just fell down," a frantic officer said. "Start, start whoever, everybody ... the whole bridge just collapsed."

Footage shows how the giant container lost power just seconds before the collapse of the structure.

The ship was completely overturned by the time rescuers arrived at the scene

"When she heard the roof crack she rolled over off the couch and sort of shielded my son under her chest."

Arriving on the scene, officers were confronted with a woman "stabbing her mother" with officers left with "no choice" but to shoot her.

A man has been charged after a woman's body was discovered inside a car in northern New South Wales.

When Ricky Hampson Jr's nephew heard about his death, the young boy asked his mum: "If I go to hospital, will they save me?"

A hiker has died after slipping trying to retrieve a tripod that had fallen by a waterfall in a national park south-west of the Gold Coast.

A fire burning for a week in Victoria's west remains out of control despite light rain and cooler conditions.

A rescue helicopter has been sent to a remote area of Queensland after a person became trapped in grain under a grain silo.

An out-of-control bushfire west of Ballarat will is likely to be burning when Victoria is hit by a combination of wind and heat not seen in years.

Fleeing residents were forced onto balconies before being lifted away by fire crews.

Families of the victims are pleading for the central government to step up rescue efforts.

A car and truck collided at the bottom of Bulli Pass, Thirroul, at 1.50pm today, police have confirmed.