Last week, area residents also appealed to Gov. Manchin to halt the blasting and order a state of emergency, in order to thoroughly investigate the catastrophic potential of the jeopardized Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment, which holds back billions of gallons of toxic coal sludge.
Months of turmoil *March 17: Five years after Kurmanbek Bakiyev became president, thousands of protesters threaten to oust him *April 6: Protesters take a government building in the town of Talas, and hold local governor hostage *April 7: Bakiyev orders a state of emergency as clashes escalate.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) has signed an order declaring a state of emergency and ordering a curfew in Ferguson, he announced in a press conference on Saturday.
He ordered a state of emergency in three northeastern states.
[The security forces] recommended to me that to ensure that they can effectively restore law and order, a state of emergency was required.
But other than that, there were no road closings, no evacuations and no major emergencies in New Jersey, even though Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco had ordered a state of emergency Sunday night and directed all nonemergency state agencies to close yesterday.
Rajapaksa's election defeat in 2015 – a result he reportedly resisted by trying to order a state of emergency as results came in – has ushered in significant positive reforms in the island nation, according to human rights groups.
Yesterday, Governor Rell ordered James Thomas, commissioner of emergency management and homeland security, to start a preliminary damage assessment that must be completed before the Federal Emergency Management Agency can issue a disaster declaration.
WILL he, won't he? Can he or can't he? President Abdurrahman Wahid kept Indonesia on tenterhooks this week about whether he would order a state of emergency, his draconian answer to efforts to unseat him.
The US space agency has ordered a series of emergency spacewalks to carry out repairs on a broken cooling line at the International Space Station.
