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Hazmat evacuation holds at half a mile; Blizzard and coastal flood warnings; CISA urges immediate patching · EM Morning Brief

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  Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Thursday, October 22, 2026.
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  A hazardous materials release at a tank terminal in North Toledo, Ohio is holding a half mile evacuation zone in place this morning.
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  Toledo Fire and Rescue ordered everyone within one mile of the MC Tank Terminal on Progress Avenue to evacuate at 10:48 Tuesday night, added a three mile shelter in place order at 4:24 Wednesday morning, then cut the evacuation zone
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  to a half mile radius and lifted the shelter in place order at 5 Wednesday evening.
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  The chemical is glycidyl methacrylate, an irritant that burns the eyes, nose, mouth and skin.
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  Shoreland elementary School is the temporary shelter.
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  The U.S.
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  environmental Protection Agency is overseeing air monitoring around the zone perimeter and city services return to normal operations today.
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  A powerful Bering Sea low is driving the largest warning footprint in the country.
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  The National Weather Service in Fairbanks has blizzard warnings up for the interior Seward Peninsula, the southern Seward Peninsula coast and the Bering Strait coast, including Shishmaref with gusts to 65 miles an hour.
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  A coastal flood warning covers the Yukon Delta coast where water levels at Hooper bay are forecast 5 to 7.5ft above the normal high tide line from Friday morning into Sunday night.
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  Winter storm warnings cover the Noatak Valley and the south slopes of the western brooks range for 10 to 20 inches of snow and high wind warnings reach St.
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  Lawrence island and the Aleutian's East Borough where gusts could reach 75 miles an hour.
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  On the Cyber side, CISA issued an alert Wednesday urging organizations to immediately patch two critical PHP CVE22.6DAZZ 09618 and CVE2026.109619.
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  Known together as PHP2 Shell, they allow unauthenticated remote code execution and affect all PHP installations.
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  Serving web requests, CISA directs organizations to inventory every version of PHP across the environment.
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  Patch Internet facing Systems first to PHP 8.5.12.8.4.278.3 Dottore 8235 and take PHP based systems offline if they cannot be updated.
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  Let's run through the Alaska Storm warnings cover the Bering Sea offshore zones and the waters from Adak to Attu, and a wind advisory is up for Yunalaska and Nikolski.
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  Forecasters expect the strongest winds Friday morning into Saturday, with coastal flooding lingering through the weekend.
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  Water levels along and south of Norton sound are forecast 1.5 to nearly 10ft above the normal highest tide, with the highest levels in eastern Norton sound and tide gauges at Kipnuk and Quigillingoc point to moderate to major flooding
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  into Friday on the Yukon Delta coast.
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  The warning language names beach property and the lowest buildings at Hooper Bay as the exposure.
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  Separately, the Alaska Volcano Observatory held Great Sitkin at watch and aviation Color code orange in its Wednesday update with lava still erupting slowly inside the Summit Crater and Shishaldin at advisory in yellow on continued low level unrest.
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  Arizona Flash flooding is the active threat across the north and east of the state.
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  The National Weather Service and Flagstaff issued a flash flood warning for Apache county after a river gauge on Chinlol Creek inside Canyon de Chelly National Monument rose rapidly above flood stage, warning of life threatening flash flooding and carrying
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  the threat downstream through the morning.
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  A flood warning runs until 2 this afternoon for Moenkopee, Wash.
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  And the Little Colorado river from Cameron to the Colorado river confluence.
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  A severe thunderstorm watch holds until 10 this morning and a flood watch until 11 tonight after an overnight round of severe storms dropped hail across the Hopi Reservation and Petrified Forest National Park.
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  Colorado Flood watches cover the southwest San Juan Mountains, the Animas and San Juan river basins, the Four Corners and Upper Dolores river and the Upper Rio Grande Valley with excessive runoff possible in rivers, creeks, streams and low lying
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  areas.
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  The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory holds Kilauea at advisory and Aviation Color code yellow with the Halemaumau eruption paused since episode 55 ended on October 17th and its Wednesday update sets the preliminary forecast for episode 56 fountaining between October 28th
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  and November 5th.
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  Parkview Health has restored Mychart and its Find a Doctor search with limitations after the system wide network outage that took the Fort Wayne based system offline.
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  Appointment reminders, messaging, prescription refill requests and scheduling are back online.
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  Billing and video visits remain unavailable and Parkview says its teams are working to restore those functions as quickly as possible.
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  The system runs 16 hospitals across Northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio, so registration and billing workarounds are still in play on both sides of the state line.
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  Michigan the Ridge Fire is burning six miles north of New guinea in the upper Peninsula at 466 acres and 50% containment, with structures threatened and trail closures in effect.
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  Michigan Department of Natural Resources crews report minimal fire behavior with smoldering.
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  The Black River Fire, four miles south of Wakefield stands at 326 acres and 70% containment after more accurate mapping reduced its reported size.
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  Dense fog advisories run into the late morning across Marquette, Alger Delta, Schoolcraft, Keweenaw and Houghton counties and the Straits of Mackinac area.
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  Montana the Braze Fire 2 miles east of Hot Springs on the Flathead Agency is the only new large incident in the country at 1,688 acres and 35% containment and a high wind watch covers the high line from Glacier
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  county to Hill county into Friday afternoon.
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  Nevada Severe thunderstorms crossed Clark and Lincoln counties overnight with 60 mile an hour gusts near Mesquite and Valley of Fire and flood advisories have run out in Esmeralda Nye, Washoe county and Carson City where the National Weather Service
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  asks drivers to keep heating remaining road closures.
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  Now back to this morning's updates.
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  New Mexico Flood watches cover western central and north central New Mexico along and west of the Continental Divide through late tonight and southwest New Mexico from this afternoon into late tonight, including the Silver City area, the Upper Gila
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  River Valley and the Black Range.
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  The National Weather Service in Albuquerque issued a flash flood warning for southwestern McKinley County Wednesday evening and severe thunderstorm warnings for McKinley, Cibola, Valencia, Caitron, San Juan and Rio arriba counties with 60 mile an hour gusts and quarter
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  size hail.
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  North Carolina North Carolina Highway 12 remains closed between the Mark Baznite Bridge and Rodenthe after ocean overwash and the state of emergency for Hatteras island stays in effect.
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  Dare county reports the mandatory evacuation order for visitors remains in place and visitor entry is prohibited.
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  The Department of Transportation activates emergency ferry service between Stumpy Point and Rodenthe today with the first rodenthe departure at 5am and a 24 hour schedule beginning Friday.
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  The crossing takes about two hours each way.
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  Each boat carries roughly 25 to 30 standard vehicles and the ferries together can move about 250 vehicles in a day, so Dare county is telling travelers to expect limited capacity and long waits.
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  Bulk petroleum and propane deliveries are restricted to the 5pm departure from Stumpy Point and the 2am departure from Rodanthe.
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  Access is limited to the county's three re entry priority categories.
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  Cape Hatteras National Seashore campgrounds and lighthouse climbing remain closed and Hatteras island trash collection resumes today.
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  Offshore.
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  Subtropical Storm Josephine is accelerating northeast away from the United States, according to about 195 miles south southeast of Nantucket, and the National Hurricane center says its swells are still driving life threatening surf and rip currents along much of
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  the Eastern seaboard with minor to locally moderate coastal flooding continuing along the Mid Atlantic coast around high tide.
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  OHIO TOLEDO Fire and Rescue hazardous materials personnel are working with federal, state and local partners to monitor conditions and evaluate next steps and and the city says the release could continue for several more hours while the reaction completes.
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  The Environmental Protection Agency says the material came from a 5,500 gallon tank during a transfer error and that it is flammable.
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  Roads around the evacuation area are closed while the interstate stays open, with drivers told to close their windows and recirculate cabin air.
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  The Coast Guard advises mariners to comply with the zone boundaries because of potential airborne exposure.
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  The city says tap water is safe since treatment happens inside and distribution runs through pressurized lines.
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  Toledo Public Schools and Washington Local schools canceled classes Wednesday and one sheriff's deputy was taken to a hospital in a condition officials described as not serious.
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  The Toledo Lucas County Health Department has published returning home guidance and a fact sheet on the chemical, and the Ohio State University Extension in Lucas county has guidance out for livestock and pets.
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  TEXAS the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has declared ozone action days for today in the Dallas Fort Worth area and in the Houston, Galveston and Brazoria area, and the National Weather Service has air quality alerts up for both
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  metros.
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  A flood warning for San Juan county, southwestern Garfield county and Kane county runs until 12:15 this afternoon, with flooding of normally dry washes, slot canyons, rivers and creeks imminent or occurring.
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  A flood watch stays up until midnight Friday across central southern and southwestern Utah, including Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon Country, Capitol Reef, the San Rafael Swell, Castle country and the Glen Canyon Recreation Area at Lake Powell.
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  Flash flood warnings in Washington, Iron and Kane counties have ended, and the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City asks drivers to keep heating remaining road closures.
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  Washington the Sisi Fire 10 miles northwest of Stahekan on the Okanogan Wenatchee national forest stands at 4,743 acres and 34% containment, with residences threatened and area road and trail closures are in effect.
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  The national Situation Report lists minimal fire behavior with smoldering, creeping and backing.
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  Wind advisories cover the Okanogan Highlands, the Okanogan Valley, the Waterville Plateau and the upper Columbia Basin into Friday afternoon.
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  GUAM the Guam power Authority reports 99% of system load restored after Super Typhoon Champi, with crews still working isolated outages, power quality problems including low and high voltage and single phasing and streetlight repairs.
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  The Guam Waterworks Authority says all zones in its distribution system are pressurized as of 6pm Wednesday, with low pressure still possible in isolated and remote areas while the system builds back water conservation measures were lifted at 10pm Wednesday.
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  All 127 samples collected Oct.
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  19 through 21 tested negative for E.
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  Coli, and the precautionary boil water notice for Chelan, Palawan and Didedo is rescinded.
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  That wraps today's EM Morning Brief.
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