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The city’s mayor, Dean Mazzarella, said that “within four and a half to five hours,” about 11 inches of rain fell in Leominster, the Worcester County city about 40 miles northwest of Boston. A deluge of rain caused severe flash flooding in Leominster on Monday night, bringing extensive damage, washing out roads, inundating homes and businesses with water, and forcing evacuations throughout the

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - More than 280 residents and businesses in downtown Colorado Springs have been without power since an underground transformer caught fire underground. "Just heard a huge boom, it was like lightning struck the building," said Mariah Jones, who was evacuated from her building. Flames were seen shooting out of manholes just west of the Nevada Ave. and Kiowa St.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The owner of an Iowa apartment building that collapsed in May, killing three people, has filed a lawsuit that blames an engineering company for not warning the building was structurally unsound and that residents should be evacuated. Real estate owner Andrew Wold filed the lawsuit last week against Select Structural Engineering, more than three months after the May 28

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Oxalis Garcia’s home in the Shore Acres section of St. Petersburg burned for nearly eight hours and there was nothing firefighters could do because the neighborhood was still flooded Wednesday afternoon. “We are grateful that we heeded the warnings, that we evacuated,” Garcia said. Garcia said she expected flooding from Hurricane Idalia’s storm surge. “What we