Evacuations and Evacuees
A Town in Washington State Is Evacuated as a Wildfire Burns Six Houses
A small town in Washington state was temporarily evacuated on Thursday after a fast-moving wildfire destroyed at least six homes, the authorities said. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook on Thursday that residents of Lind, Wash., needed to evacuate because of the ongoing threat from the flames. The Lind fire destroyed six houses […]
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Last Stand at Azovstal: Inside the Siege That Shaped the Ukraine War
Soldiers wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags, some missing arms and legs, were hoisted into the helicopters, whose rotors never stopped spinning. They lifted off with eight or nine wounded fighters that day, Flint said, some of whom were conscious enough to show off cellphone videos of the intense fighting they had endured. The March […]
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Flood, Evacuate, Rinse, Repeat: A Relentless Pattern Batters Australia
WINDSOR, Australia — Emma Winley pointed to the markings on the outside of her house, recording the levels of the three floods that have hit in the past 16 months. In March of last year, the water came up to her knees. In March of this year, it nearly reached her shoulders. Still rebuilding after […]
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Yellowstone Park, Staggered by Rain and Floods, Will Stay Closed for Days
Ms. Darr, 43, said that she was thinking about commuting to nearby towns where she could take up her former profession as a nurse. Her husband, she added, operated heavy equipment, and hoped that he might be able to earn some money assisting with recovery efforts. Anna Holloway, 45, runs a bookstore and cafe in […]
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Photos From Ukraine’s Front Lines
Amid the roar of artillery and bone-rattling explosions, New York Times photographers have borne graphic witness to the fight to survive. These are their stories and images. Photographs and Text by Lynsey Addario, Finbarr O’Reilly and Ivor Prickett June 1, 2022 Through the three months of Russia’s invasion, New York Times journalists have chronicled carnage and […]
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Ukraine Signals End of Bitter Battle at Azovstal Steel Plant
KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian authorities announced late Monday an end to their combat operation in the besieged city of Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters have held out for weeks in the face of near-constant Russian bombardment. The military ordered the remaining troops who had been sheltering beneath a steel factory there to focus on efforts […]
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They Survived the Holocaust. Now, They Are Fleeing to Germany.
HANOVER, Germany — Their earliest memories are of fleeing bombs or hearing whispers about massacres of other Jews, including their relatives. Sheltered by the Soviet Union, they survived. Now elderly and fragile, Ukraine’s Holocaust survivors are escaping war once more, on a remarkable journey that turns the world they knew on its head: They are […]
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In Mariupol’s Drama Theater, a Cry for ‘Mama!’ That Offered Brief Relief
LVIV, Ukraine — The explosion — deafening, blinding — collapsed the walls around them, and “the moments afterwards felt like an eternity, waiting to hear my child’s scream so I would know she was alive,” Viktoria Dubovitskaya said. “Maybe she will be without legs or arms, but just let her be alive.” Ms. Dubovitskaya, interviewed […]
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‘I Don’t Have the Right to Cry’: Ukrainian Women Share Their Stories of Escape
I just had a feeling that we had to get out of there. Every minute you hear these explosions, these shots somewhere nearby, it’s hard to understand, are you a target? Even if it’s silent, the silence feels ominous. There is just this constant sense of danger. And I had a great sense of guilt […]
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