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NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
Monday, July 30, 2018
Denton Record-Chronicle
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Hope grows as deadly Northern Calif, blaze slows
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being in a defensive mode on
this fire all the time,” said Bret
Gouvea, the California Depart-
ment of Forestry and Fire Pro-
tection’s incident commander
on the blaze around Redding,
a city about 230 miles north of
San Francisco.
Gouvea spoke at a news
conference with fire and law
enforcement officials. Shasta
County Sheriff Tom Bosenko said
authorities found a sixth victim of
the blaze at a home that was con-
sumed by flames, though he de-
clined to say where. The victim’s
identity was not released.
The sheriff’s department also
is investigating seven missing
persons reports, Bosenko said.
Redding police have an addi-
tional 11 reports of missing peo-
ple, though many of them may
simply not have checked in with
friends or family, said Redding
police Sgt. Todd Cogle.
The so-called Carr Fire that
affected Redding — a city of
After days of fortifying the
areas around Redding, fire
crews were increasingly confi-
dent that the city would escape
further damage. The fire had
not grown inside the city limits
since Saturday, Gouvea said.
Some of the 38,000 peo-
ple forced to evacuate said
they were frustrated because
they didn’t know whether their
homes were standing or were
destroyed. Authorities had not
reopened any evacuated neigh-
borhoods where fires raged due
to safety and ongoing investi-
gations and urged people to be
patient, saying they would soon
let residents back.
Fed up, on Sunday morning
Tim Bollman hiked 4 miles on
trails up steep terrain to check
on the Redding home he built
for his wife and two sons 13
years ago. He found rubble.
“There’s not even anything to
pick up,” he said. “It’s completely
gone.”
By Jonathan J. Cooper
and Sudhin Thanawala
Associated Press
REDDING, Calif. - The
deadly Northern California
wildfire that has forced tens of
thousands of people to flee their
homes slowed down Sunday
after days of explosive growth,
giving officials hope even as they
announced the discovery of a
sixth fatality.
Meanwhile officials said a
second firefighter died fighting
a huge blaze to the south near
Yosemite National Park. Brian
Hughes, 33, was struck by a tree
and killed while working as part
of a crew removing brush and
other fuel near the so-called Fer-
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Sunday in the aftermath of a wildfire in Keswick, Calif.
guson fire’s front lines, national
parks officials said.
In Redding, officials stuck a
hopeful tone for the first time in
days.
wick fueled by gusty winds and
about 92,000 people
ignited by a vehicle problem on dry vegetation. It then jumped
Monday about 10 miles west of the Sacramento River and took
the city. On Thursday, it swept out subdivisions on the western
through the historic Gold Rush edge of Redding,
town of Shasta and nearby Kes-
517 structures destroyed and an-
other 135 damaged, with the fire
having consumed 139 square
miles. A count by The Associated
Press found at least 300 of those
structures were homes.
was
“We’re feeling a lot more op-
timistic today as we’re starting
to gain some ground rather than
The latest tally showed at least
Strong earthquake hits Indonesian island
the hardest hit with 10 deaths, vincial capital of Mataram, the
including a Malaysian tourist, quake lasted about 10 seconds,
said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a causing residents to flee their
spokesman for Indonesia’s Di- homes onto streets and fields,
saster Mitigation Agency. The Nugroho said. He said most of
number of casualties could in- the fatalities and injuries were
crease as data was still being col- caused by falling slabs of con-
lected from other locations on crete.
Eka Fathurrahman, the po-
lice chief in East Lombok, said
the Malaysian woman who died
was part of a group of 18 Ma-
laysian tourists who had just
visited Mount Rinjani when the
quake jolted their guesthouse
and toppled a concrete wall. Six
other people were injured at the
guesthouse.
Fathurrahman said many
injured people who were treated
outside a damaged clinic were
evacuated to the main hospital
farther away after more ambu-
lances reached the devastated
location in East Lombok’s Sem-
balun village.
“Residents refused to enter
their houses as prolonged af-
tershocks are still being felt,” he
said.
By Niniek Karmini
and Ali Kotarumalos
Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A
strong and shallow earthquake
early Sunday killed at least 14
people and injured more than
160 on Indonesia’s Lombok is-
land, a popular tourist destina-
tion next to Bah, officials said.
The quake damaged more
than 1,000 houses and was felt
in a wider area, including on
Bah, where no damage or casu-
alties were reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey
said the quake struck at a depth
of only 4.4 miles. Shallow earth-
quakes tend to do more damage
than deeper ones.
East Lombok district was
Photos released by the di-
saster agency showed damaged
jured, including 67 hospitalized houses and the entrance to the
with serious injuries, Nugroho popular Mount Rinjani Nation-
al Park, which was immediately
The quake caused blackouts closed for fear of landslides.
Television footage showed
Lombok districts and triggered residents remaining outside,
a large landslide from Mount fearing aftershocks, as the in-
Rinjani, an active volcano. Res- jured were being treated on
cuers were evacuating more mattresses taken out of their
than 800 tourists from the partially damaged houses and
mountain.
In East Lombok and the pro- hospital.
the island, he said.
At least 162 people were in-
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BRIEFLY
Palestinian teen protest icon Ahed
al-Tamimi leaves prison in Israel
AROUND THE WORLD
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Hun Sen coasts to win
after opposition silenced
Cambodia’s ruling party won
an expected victory in an elec-
tion Sunday widely considered
illegitimate after the only credi-
ble opposition was silenced and
which ensures that long-ruling
Prime Minister Hun Sen will
serve another five-year term.
spokesman
Khieu Kanharith confirmed to
The Associated Press that the
Cambodian People’s Party had
topped the polls.
Harare, Zimbabwe
Mugabe emerges, rejects
ruling party in election
After months of silence, Zim-
babwe’s former leader Robert
Mugabe emerged just hours be-
fore Monday’s historic election
declaring that “I will not vote for
those who have illegally taken
power” and turning his back on
the party he long controlled.
“I cannot vote for those who
have tormented me,” Mugabe
said in a reference to President
Emmerson Mnangagwa, who
took office with the military’s
support.
By Erin Cunningham
The Washington Post
NABI SALEH, West Bank -
Palestinian youth activist Ahed
al-Tamimi was released from
an Israeli prison on Sunday af-
ter serving an eight-month sen-
tence on assault and incitement
charges and arrived home to a
hero’s welcome.
Tamimi, whose December
arrest drew international atten-
tion, tearfully embraced rela-
tives as a crowd of supporters
jostled for selfies with the teen.
Israeli authorities also released
her mother, Nariman, who
served a similar sentence for in-
citement.
The mother and daughter
were indicted by an Israeli mil-
itary court after a video of the
curly-haired teen kicking and
slapping two armed Israeli sol-
diers in protective gear went viral
on Facebook. Her mother was ar-
rested shortly after she posted the
footage on social media.
Tamimi, 17, soon became a
potent symbol of the Palestin-
ian protest movement, her im-
age gracing murals and posters
around the globe.
In her village in the West
Bank, Nabi Saleh, activists and
residents have staged weekly
demonstrations since 2009,
when Jewish settlers confiscat-
ed some of Nabi Saleh’s land,
including a spring that served as
its water source.
Israeli troops and border po-
lice have confronted the demon-
strators, firing tear gas, arresting
stone-throwers and imposing
curfews. Israel says the security
measures around Nabi Saleh,
which has a population of about
500, and other areas are nec-
essary to prevent the kind of
attacks that Palestinians have
recently carried out in Jewish
settlements across the West
Bank.
month sentence was the result
of a plea deal struck to avoid a
lengthy trial, her attorney said.
Israel has occupied the West
Bank since it captured the land
in a 1967 war. Over the decades,
it has built numerous settle-
ments that crisscross land the
Palestinians claim for a future
state, including in places like
Nabi Saleh, which borders the
Israeli outpost Halamish.
As she spoke to reporters,
Tamimi’s unruly blond curls
fell over her black-and-white
checkered scarf, long an em-
blem of Palestinian nationalism.
Her face was pale and her eyes
bloodshot. Nationalists songs
blared from loud speakers, in-
cluding one written especially
for her.
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arrest in December, Israeli De-
fense Minister Avigdor Liber-
man said that the teen and her
parents would not “escape what
they deserve” and that anyone
who was “wild during the day
would be arrested at night.”
But in the hours after her re-
lease from prison, Tamimi said
Sunday — sitting in the court-
yard of her home — that she
“knew a long time ago” that she
would be arrested for “choosing
this path” of opposition to the
Israeli occupation. Her eight-
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hands, your hands have shaken
the world,” the lyrics said. “Your
hands returned the slap to the
occupier and returned esteem
to the nation.”
But a somber Tamimi ac-
knowledged that ‘life in prison
was very difficult.”
“Anyone who also chooses
this path should prepare them-
selves to spend time in prison,”
she said.
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MOSTAR, Bosnia-Herzegov-
ina — To say that the high-div-
ing competition that starts on
a historic bridge and ends in a
fast-flowing river is the pride of
a city in southern Bosnia under-
estimates the resilience that’s re-
quired to keep the tradition going.
For centuries, the annual con-
test in Mostar has been drawing
crowds eager to witness the dar-
ing skills perfected by generations
of relatives and neighbors.
The Old Bridge, originally
built by the Ottomans in 1566, is
a UNESCO World Heritage site.
It was destroyed during Bosnia’s
1992-95 war, but was painstak-
ingly rebuilt after the conflict.
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men enter the contest to take a
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