When I read your article on the dam burst looming at Mount Pinatubo (28 July, p 4), I had a simple idea that could help avert the disaster: siphons. Take a suitable length of acid-resistant, ...

A Florida man was tasered by police for turning his hose on his neighbor's house fire. Dan Jensen, 42, complied when police ordered him to put down his garden hose, but as the fire came near his fence ...