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>> bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. >> bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also examining if more can be to avoid potential disasters. >> we have seen an uptick in serious close c...

TEUTOPOLIS, Ill. (WCIA) — A semi-tractor trailer rolled over on I-70 at the 103 mile marker, partially blocking a lane on Thursday afternoon. Teutopolis and Montrose Fire Protection Districts were dispatched to the scene around 12:26 p.m. They reported that the driver wasn’t trapped and wasn’t carrying hazardous cargo. The driver was transported to Rural […]

It took multiple crews almost a full day to clear the crashed trailer, due to its hazardous cargo.

The families of two New Jersey firefighters who were killed battling a July blaze inside a cargo ship said Friday a malfunctioning vehicle being used to load cargo onto the ship caused the fire. Relatives of Newark firefighters Captains Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. held a news conference outside the firehouse where the two had worked, saying litigation to be filed in the coming months will seek to hold accountable the Italian shipping company that owned the ship, as well as two stevedore companies involved in loading the vessel. The families ...

According to a new survey, the aviation industry needs to reduce the complexity of processes around the transport of dangerous goods.