Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, recently announced that the corporation's philanthropic arm, Carnival Foundation, and five of its global cruise line brands together with the Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation have collectively pledged over US$1.25 million to support disaster recovery efforts from raging bushfires causing widespread devastation throughout Australia.
CSRHub Co-Founder and CEO, Cynthia Figge, will be moderating a conversation at the Future in Review® (FiRe) Conference in Park City, Utah held October 10-13, 2017.
PARMA, Ohio, June 20, 2016 /3BL Media/ — Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) today dedicated the KeyBank Public Safety Training Center in recognition of KeyBank’s generous support of first responder training programs.
The dedication celebrates a $1.4 million grant from the KeyBank Foundation to enhance and expand the College’s public safety education and training programs. More than 200 people attended the ceremony at the center, located at Western Campus in Parma.
TransCanada makes $2 million land donation for emergency responder training centre
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Fire Chief Jim Smith has battled grassfires in the middle of lightning-filled thunderstorms, wild land fires in dry and windy conditions and large residential and commercial building fires.
In short, he has worked tirelessly to save lives and property in southern Alberta as head of the fire service for the Municipal District (M.D.) of Foothills No. 31.
And in every potentially catastrophic situation, Smith has relied on his classroom training and practical experience to keep him and his fellow firefighters safe.
Since mid-October, the archipelago of Indonesia has been under a haze of smoke from fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan. Mimika Regency in Papua, located east of where the fires rage, has smog thick enough to close the local airport.
In response to the smoke and haze damage, PT Freeport Indonesia has provided 6 tons of food as well as supplies for response teams dealing with the smoke and fire devastation.
Quick action and immediate willingness to help a neighbor made a big difference in saving property and wildlife habitat from even worse destruction during Oregon’s first major brush fire of the season.
The fire consumed an estimated 40,000 acres in north-central Oregon, according to Boardman Rural Fire Protection District Lt. Casey Zellars.
“We had pretty much all the emergency responders in Morrow and Umatilla counties out there from the time the fire was reported at 2 p.m. Monday until it was finally put out after midnight on Tuesday,” he relates.
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2015 /3BL Media/ – Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) in a ceremony at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station unveiled its latest commemorative locomotive, a vibrant SD60E honoring emergency first responders. The locomotive – with insignia recognizing police, fire, and emergency services – will enter general revenue service on Norfolk Southern’s 22- state network.
We are all aware that California is facing a serious water shortage. The crisis came into the spotlight early this year after a “summery” winter that brought little rainfall. However, while this drought is directly effecting many people, there are still many more that do not feel the results of this disaster in their everyday lives. They are still taking long showers, not fixing leaky pipes, and over-watering their lawns. Yes, they are conscious of the fact that there is a drought, but since they don’t see the effects clearly in their every day life, it may not be affecting them persona
