Ben Bibik lives in Tully. I write as a longtime volunteer firefighter. I am one of the few who has the luxury of working in district that can respond to most of the calls during the daytime hours, ...

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Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) Chief Brian Fennessy will retire on January 2, 2026, to become the inaugural Director of the newly established United States Wildland Fire Service (USWFS). The new ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new research showing how two powerful symmetries could have created stable ...

HONG KONG — A major fire tore through multiple high-rise towers at a housing complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, the city's chief executive, John Lee, said, with 279 people ...

After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

WUSA-TV Washington, D.C. Posted: October 30, 2025 | Last updated: October 30, 2025 International wedding planning website 'The Knot' is under fire after being accused of fraud and deceptive businesses ...

Bitcoin Knots' attempt at transaction filtering has been a completely ineffective and failed attempt to denial-of-service attack the Bitcoin network. This is a very basic concept. Someone makes use of ...

MCCREARY COUNTY, Ky. — The Pine Knot Fire Department responded to a large fire Friday evening at a business on Southern Highway. Eleven agencies responded in total. The road was shut down in the area ...

A Secret Service vehicle caught fire near the White House on Monday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit. The DC Fire and EMS Department confirmed the incident at 18th Street and ...