Tag Archives: Fire

A video has been shared on social media with claims it shows the aftermath of a “bombing” by Hezbollah. But it actually shows a warehouse fire in Brazil. 

The video includes two clips, both showing flames and columns of smoke. One has been filmed in daylight, while the other is at night with two vehicles visible in the foreground. 

One post on X (formerly Twitter) has almost 2,000 shares and says: “Rats got roasted by Hezbollah.” The video has also been shared on YouTube with the caption: “Hezbollah is now massively bombing the city of Safed in northern Israel.”

But this video has been miscaptioned—it does not show Safed, or anything relating to the recent escalation in fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. 

This footage actually shows a warehouse…

Everyone is invited to join West Kelowna Fire Rescue firefighters, staff and special guests for this free event as we all work together to become a more FireSmart community.

Activities include:

·     🎈 Play in the kids activity zone

·     🦊 Meet Ember the Fire Fox and Sparky the Fire Dog

·     🌭 Enjoy free food and refreshments

·     🔥 Watch live FireSmart demos with our firefighters

·     💧 Spray a fire hose

·     📖 Learn how to be FireSmart

·     🌳 Prep your home for fire season

Please support the local food bank and help fill their shelves for summer by bringing a non-perishable food donation and dropping it off at an on-site collection bin.

To accommodate this popular event, the City of West Kelowna will close Old…

The stock of Rivian Automotive(NASDAQ: RIVN) is jumping again on Monday. Shares of the electric vehicle (EV) maker popped as much as 12% in early trading today to start the week. That jump kept the momentum going for Rivian shares.

The stock has soared by more than 30% since mid-April. That move came after the company introduced its next-generation lineup of midsize electric SUVs in March and after a large funding grant from the State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. That grant will help Rivian save more than $2.25 billion in capital spending as it expands its Illinois factory to begin building the R2 vehicle platform it announced.

But another tailwind has investors pushing the stock higher today, too.

Looking at the EV landscape

Today’s pop came after reports…

A post liked more than a thousand times on Threads claims that a video of a large fire in the West Bank was filmed in late April. 

The video, which appears to have been taken at some distance from the fire, shows a huge blaze in the middle of a built-up area.

Posted on 26 April, the caption claims: “Hebron in the West Bank tonight”. It adds, “H@mas are not in the West Bank”, possibly implying the fire was a result of Israeli action following the 7 October attacks on the country by Hamas.

But this video first appeared online two months earlier, and appears to show a fire at a plastics factory in Hebron that broke out on 27 February. 

The post shared on Threads is watermarked with the handle of an Instagram account, which posted the video, alongside several

Chris Rock made a tasteless comment when he compared his Oscar-hosting situation with the late Nicole Brown Simpson case. Rock was at the receiving end of Will Smith’s infamous Oscar slap that landed the latter a decade-long ban from the Academy. So when Rock was asked to host the 2023 Awards, it was clearly too soon, and Rock’s reply analogy turned out to be a little controversial.

Fargo actor Chris Rock made a tasteless joke about Nicole Brown Simpson while discussing his Oscar-hosting gig

During one of his standup specials, Rock shared that the Academy offered him the Oscars host role the very next year after the Slap. He shared that asking him to host was just like asking Nicole Brown Simpson to revisit the evidence against O.J. Simpson.

Chris Rock’s Tasteless Joke About Nicole…