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Yahoo
23-04-2025
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Craven Community College Student Veterans Association cleans up Lawson Creek Park for Earth Day
NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT)– Volunteers with Craven Community College's Student Veterans Association and Phi Theta Kappy Honor Society chapters participated in an Earth Day cleanup at Lawson Creek Park Tuesday. The park was the first to be cleaned up in this year's event, but the college hopes to continue this tradition with the city of New Bern at different parks and locations each year. Volunteers picked up trash along the fields and trail. They removed debris and any other small fixes that they could do. Dozens of volunteers participated in the event. 'To take this as motivation to just help out and get out in any way you can. Whether that be helping someone with their groceries at the grocery store, just any way you can help the community,' student in the early college program Jillian Morris said. Organizers and other volunteers said the event was all about giving back to the community. They hope this event on Earth Day is enough to inspire a little motivation for everyone for every day. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Jordan Times
11-03-2025
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- Jordan Times
Huge fire, more than 30 injured after North Sea ships crash
The Stena Immaculate tanker that collided with Solong container vessel appear at a distance off the coast of Withernsea, east of England, on March 11, 2025 (AFP photo) GRIMSBY, United Kingdom - A cargo ship ran into a US-military charted tanker carrying jet fuel in the North Sea on Monday, sparking a massive fire off the English coast and injuring more than 30 people, the tanker's operator and authorities said. A major rescue operation was being coordinated by the UK Coastguard as images showed a huge plume of thick, black smoke and flames rising from the scene about 10 miles (16 kilometres) off the Stena Immaculate was "anchored off the North Sea coast near Hull... [and]was struck by the container ship Solong", the Stena's US-based operators Crowley said in a tanker was on a short-term US military charter with Military Sealift Command, according to Jillian Morris, the spokesperson for the command that operates civilian-crewed ships providing ocean transport for the US Defense said the impact of the collision "ruptured" the cargo tank "containing A1-jet fuel" and triggered a fire, with fuel "reported released".A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the situation "extremely concerning". Grimsby port director Martyn Boyers told AFP that 32 injured people had been brought ashore for treatment in three vessels, adding that "ambulances were queueing on the quay" in the northeastern English fishing MP Graham Stuart later wrote on X that 37 people had been crew members on board the tanker, owned by Swedish shipowner Stena Bulk, were confirmed to be alive, Lena Alvling, a spokesperson for the firm, told AFP.'Not like crude spill' There were reports of "fires on both ships" that UK lifeboat services were responding to, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) confirmed to AFP.A spokesman said the coastguard was carrying out an assessment of the likely counter-pollution response required, while a government body probing marine accidents deployed a team to Grimsby."Our team of inspectors and support staff are gathering evidence and undertaking a preliminary assessment of the accident to determine our next steps," a Marine Accident Investigation Branch spokesperson Vince, founder of ASK Consultants, an environmental risk advisory group, told AFP that "the good news is it's not persistent, it's not like a crude oil spill". "Most of it will evaporate quite quickly and what doesn't evaporate will be degraded by microorganisms quite quickly", he added, while warning that "it will kill fish and other creatures".Martin Slater, director of operations at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said it could be potentially "devastating" to seal and bird populations if the nearby Humber estuary became traffic suspended All vessel movements were "suspended" in the Humber estuary that flows into the North Sea, according to Associated British Ports (ABP).The ABP, which operates in the Ports of Hull and Immingham in the region, added that it was "assisting" the Coastguard. The International Maritime Organization told AFP "the current focus is on the firefighting and search-and-rescue operation".The alarm about the crash near the port city of Hull in East Yorkshire was raised at 0948 GMT.A coastguard helicopter, a plane, lifeboats from four towns and other nearby vessels were part of the large rescue operation, UK Coastguard cargo ship was the Portuguese-flagged "Solong", owned by the German company Reederei 140-metre-long cargo vessel left Grangemouth in Scotland and was bound for Rotterdam, according to the Vessel Finder rare Vessels with firefighting capabilities have been dispatched to the scene off the northeast remain rare in the busy North October 2023, two cargo ships, the Verity and the Polesie, collided near Germany's Heligoland islands in the North people were killed and two others are still missing and considered Isle-of-Man-flagged Verity, which was carrying steel from the northern German port of Bremen to Immingham, October 2015, the Flinterstar freighter, carrying 125 tonnes of diesel and 427 tonnes of fuel oil, sank after colliding with the Al Oraiq tanker eight kilometres off the Belgian coast.A major North Sea oil spill took place in January 1993 when the Liberian tanker Braer suffered engine damage while en route to Canada from Norway. Water seeped into the holds of the ship, which ran aground off Scotland's Shetland Islands and released 84,500 tonnes of crude oil.
