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A 69-year-old woman hospitalized at HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood was killed in her hospital bed when a defibrillator being used on her caught fire and then exploded. The niece of the woman killed in the Houston hospital bedside explosion and fire described her aunt’s fatal injuries as included the patient’s entire upper torso being burned beyond recognition. The niece went on to add that “who would ever expect your relative to be burnt to a crisp in a hospital.” The…

Four people are dead and a fifth is in critical, unstable condition following a New Mexico hot air balloon crash on Saturday. The hot air balloon had been airborne over Albuquerque when it somehow crashed into a Public Service of New Mexico high-voltage power line. The names of the victims have not been released to the public or the media pending further investigation and notification of next of kin. What is known is that the four deceased people and the…

The situation grew from shocking to incomprehensible overnight at the scene of the Surfside condo collapse. As the sun set on Thursday evening, 99 people were listed as missing in the Champlain Towers South condo collapse. There was some hope that number would decline as some unaccounted-for people were discovered not to have been in the building at the time of the disaster. As the day dawned on Friday, the exact opposite proved to be the case. Four people have…

99 people are unaccounted for 12 hours after a massive Miami condo building collapse that occurred during the early hours of Thursday morning. Within a short time following the yet-to-be-explained collapse of more than half of the 12-story residential structure in the Surfside community, about a dozen people were rushed to area hospitals where one person was pronounced dead. The Mayor of Surfside, Charles Burkett, described the deadly disaster as “the building is literally pancaked.” By that he means that…

New homes constructed along the Gulf coast as well as on the Atlantic shores of Florida, the Carolinas, and elsewhere, are being built “taller” to provide more resilient protection against storm surge. As a consequence, a significantly increasing number of people are having residential elevators installed in their homes. There is a noticeable downside to the marked increase in residential elevator installations. Unlike their commercial counterparts, residential elevators are subject to little or no regulation. As a consequence, there is…