Our sister site, BurlingtonToday, has confirmed that one of the victims of a violent dog attack at a home on Caplan Crescent earlier this month has died of their injuries.
According to published media reports the woman, who was taken to hospital in critical condition on June 6, passed away 10 days later.
"I can confirm that the victim in the hospital tragically passed away on June 16," said Halton Regional Police media relations officer Steve Elms in an email, noting that the HRPS is not in a position to identify the victim.
"There are no criminal elements to this investigation," he added. "Pending any new information, our involvement at this point is minimal."
A second resident of the home sustained serious injuries in the attack, while a neighbour who tried to help was not hurt. Police tried to subdue the dog using a taser, but ultimately shot and killed it to stop the attack.
The drama unfolded in front of many witnesses. A 34-year-old man died of lightning Thursday afternoon in Gaillard (Haute-Savoie), according to our information.
Due to strong stormy activity, Météo-France had placed several departments on Thursday June 22 in orange vigilance, including Haute-Savoie.
It was shortly after 5 p.m. that the man was struck by lightning after opening his umbrella in a parking lot on the site of the Bayer pharmaceutical factory in this town of 11,500 inhabitants, located southwest of Annemasse. He died instantly.
Thirty witnesses to the lightning were taken care of by the department's medico-psychological emergency unit.
Len Besterman with Sarasota Experience photographed this waterspout over Roberts Bay from Nora Patterson Bay Island Park.
Len Besterman, a social media content creator with Sarasota Experience, was driving north on Siesta Key, with plans to go to St. Armands Key Wednesday when he saw black clouds coming in, and figured his next stop would be rained out.
He checked an online weather radar app and thought, "I bet you we get some spin somewhere."
Besterman decided to stop at Nora Patterson Bay Island Park and that's when he looked south over Roberts Bay near Edwards Islands Park and saw the waterspout start to form.
He started filming; it took between three and four minutes for the waterspout to fully form. He got to the top of the steps at the park's restroom facility "and when I got to the top there you could actually see the water coming up and I started filming again," Besterman said.
Ross Giarratana, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Ruskin, said conditions lately have been favorable for waterspouts.
The Hunga Tonga - Hunga Haʻapai volcano in the South Pacific Ocean erupted on January 15, 2022, continuing to break records. The eruption generated a plume of ash, water, and magmatic gas at least 58 kilometers (36 miles) high. Despite blocking satellite views of the vent and making it more challenging to monitor changes in the eruption as it progressed, the towering plume provided scientists with vital information about the eruption's size.
A new study revealed that the eruption created a "supercharged" thunderstorm that recorded the most intense lightning ever. During the eruption, there were approximately 200,000 lightning strikes in the volcanic plume, with the rate reaching a maximum of over 2,600 strikes per minute, according to the experts.
Scientists have now been able to gaze into that plume, plucking out new stages of the eruption's life cycle and obtaining insight into the strange weather it caused thanks to high-resolution lightning data from four sources previously never used together.
A Florida deputy is "lucky to be alive" after being sucked into a drainage pipe and swept underwater for about 30 seconds after trying to help a stranded driver who was stuck in the flood, authorities said.
Escambia County has experienced severe weather and heavy rain over the past few days, and those weather conditions were at a peak Friday morning when deputy William Hollingsworth was on patrol, Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said in a statement on Facebook.
At around 1:39 a.m. local time in Pensacola, Florida, Hollingsworth exited his patrol car and approached a man who was trapped in rising waters, Simmons said.
When Hollingsworth got closer, he saw the man get swept underwater and quickly "rushed to his aid without regard for his own safety," Simmons said in the statement.
As Hollingsworth attempted to rescue the man, both were sucked into a drainage pipe and swept underneath a roadway on Hwy 98.
Storms and heavy rain across a large swath of Germany flooded roads and forced the closure of some major railway routes on Friday, but there was no immediate word of any injuries.
Germany's national weather service had warned earlier this week of severe storms with significant amounts of rainfall, which hit on Thursday.
In the western city of Duisburg, the fire service said it rescued several people from cars that got stuck on flooded streets. Shops were flooded and streets inundated in the northern city of Braunschweig, and there were similar reports from Kassel. In Hattersheim, near Frankfurt, trees fell on houses and cars, German news agency dpa reported.
Germany's national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, said that the main line between Hamburg and Berlin was closed because of storm damage, as was a major north-south route between Kassel and Goettingen.
Nearly half a million people in northeast India have been affected by severe flooding after heavy rains battered the region, turning roads into rivers and submerging entire villages.
More than 495,000 people spread across 22 districts in the state of Assam have been impacted by floodwaters, its disaster management authority said in a statement Thursday.
About 14,000 people were evacuated to relief camps after torrential rainfall swept across the region, resulting in the river Beki, which flows through Assam, to overflow. At least one person has died, according to state authorities.
The scene is unsettling: hundreds of sea lions and dolphins are sprawled across the beaches in Southern California, either dead or sick and exhibiting abnormal behaviour.
Officials have received more than 1,000 calls in recent weeks from beachgoers, tourists and residents reporting sick, dying and dead sea mammals washed ashore from Santa Barbara to San Diego County, amid a growing toxic algal bloom in the waters off the coast.
The wave of dead or sick animals is "one of the largest in memory," Justin Greenman, a stranding coordinator with NOAA Fisheries, told CNN. "It's completely overwhelming."
And, Greenman said, it doesn't appear to be ending any time soon.
Thousands of dead fish, crabs and prawns were scattered down the picturesque Thung Wua Laen beach in the southern Thai province of Chumphon Thursday.
They were killed by toxic algae bloom known as the red tide, which depletes oxygen in the water and "prevents fish from breathing through their gills", local fishing authority Boonyawat Thonghom told AFP.
Local residents have been picking up dead fish along the two-kilometer stretch of white sandy beach.
"We advise the locals not to consume the fish as the algae might be toxic, but using them as fertilizer is OK," said Boonyawat.
Barbados was battered with near-hurricane strength winds as Tropical Storm Bret moved across parts of the eastern Caribbean's Lesser Antilles island group.
Meteorologists noted the weather pattern was unusually early and aggressive for the Atlantic cyclone season that formally began on 1 June.
It is only the second hurricane to form in the tropical Atlantic in June since record keeping began, according to forecasters