Public Safety USA Blog

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

fema daily headsUp for Weds Oct 28 2026

National Current Ops / Monitoring for October 27-28, 2026

New Significant Incidents / Ongoing Operations:
• No new significant incidents / operations

Hazard Monitoring:
• Excessive Rainfall / Flash Flooding – Hawaii
• Severe Thunderstorms – Upper Mississippi Valley
• Tropical Activity
○ Western Pacific:
• Super Typhoon In-Fa (CAT-4)
○ Central and Eastern Pacific:
• Tropical Storm Vance

Disaster Declaration Activity:
• Request: Major Disaster Declaration – NE
• Approval: Major Disaster Declaration – FL

Event Monitoring:
• No new significant events

(major train crash in Spain today - approx 60 dead)

update on spain train crash

https://www.youtube.com/live/JsJLlFf3iTo?si=0iWRuJrlaBWSMKAX - live video from scene - crane is up - rescue / recovery efforts still underway - 133 pm edt

the story so far - there was telecomms problem on one section of rail line - the safety system (?automatically?) shut down all train 5 or 7 trains on that 1 section of rail line - then a controller told 1 train they could move - apparently the safety guidelines said train could only go 40 km / hr but they went 140 km / hr - they struck train in front of them after a 17 minute journey

transport minister said that they had recreated the crash at the control center - so apparently the transport department knows exactly how (or why) the crash happened

'Inexplicable' erroneous control center order caused Spain train crash

'Inexplicable' erroneous control center order caused Spain train crash, transport minister says An erroneous order from a train controller, following a signaling system failure, resulted in Wednesday’s deadly train crash, according to Spain’s transport minister. per cnn - https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/28/world/live-news/spain-train-crash-collision-intl