Tuesday, February 11

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‘HELP’ Sign Leads Rescuers To Stranded Men After Week-Plus Stuck On Remote Pacific Island
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‘HELP’ Sign Leads Rescuers To Stranded Men After Week-Plus Stuck On Remote Pacific Island

3 males stranded on an unoccupied Pacific island endured for more than a week and utilized palm leaves to define HELP on the beach-- causing rescue by Navy and Coast Guard aviators who identified the indication from a number of thousand feet in the air.They had actually embarked March 31 in a 20-foot boat with an outboard motor from Pulawat Atoll, a little island with about an approximated 1,000 occupants in the Federated States of Micronesia about 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) east of the Philippines.The guys were fishing when they struck a reef, putting a hole in the boat's bottom and triggering it to handle water, Lt. Keith Arnold stated in a Coast Guard video.A Coast Guard ship, the Oliver Henry, got the males Tuesday and took them back to the atoll where they had actually set out 9 d...
Central American, Mexican Families Mourn The Workers Lost In Baltimore Bridge Collapse
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Central American, Mexican Families Mourn The Workers Lost In Baltimore Bridge Collapse

AZACUALPA, Honduras (AP)-- The building and construction employees who went missing out on in the Baltimore bridge collapse pertained to the Maryland location from Mexico or Central America, consisting of a resourceful Honduran daddy and partner who began a shipment company before the pandemic required him to discover other work, according to his household.Cops handled to close bridge traffic seconds before a freight ship knocked into among the Francis Scott Key Bridge's assistances early Tuesday, triggering the period to fall under the freezing Patapsco River. There wasn't time for an upkeep team filling holes on the period to get to security.A minimum of 8 individuals fell under the water and 2 were saved. 2 bodies were recuperated Wednesday and 4 stayed missing and were presumed dead.Th...