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The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by torrential storms in southern Brazil climbed to 39 on Friday, officials said, as they warned of worse to come.
Survivors described how terrifying it was as the fire rushed across the landscape faster than they could've ever imagined.
Kazakhstan said Saturday that 32 people died in a fire in yet another deadly accident at a mine owned by ArcelorMittal, with over a dozen still missing, in the Central Asian country's worst disaster in years. - Five deadly accidents in a year - The fire was Kazakhstan's worst mining accident since 2006, when 41 miners died at an ArcelorMittal site, and came two months after five miners were killed in a blast this summer.
Hawaii boasts having the “largest single integrated public safety outdoor siren warning system in the world" with at least 80 sirens on Maui, but officials did not resort to the alarms during raging brush fires.
Due to improvements in forecasting and infrastructure, the Great Vermont Flood of 1927 will likely remain the worst disaster in the state’s history, with 84 dead and hundreds injured.