App shows damage from Canada wildfire

App shows damage from Canada wildfire

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta

Alberta’s provincial government has released an app that will give residents of wildfire-ravaged Fort McMurray a good look at their properties.

Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee warned Sunday that viewing the satellite images may be traumatic. A number for Alberta’s Mental Health Help Line is included in Larivee’s news release.

She says the maps are intended to provide satellite overviews of the city after a massive wildfire that ignited almost two weeks ago, forcing more than 80,000 residents to evacuate and destroying more than 2,400 structures in Fort McMurray.

NRA battles measure on background checks

CARSON CITY, Nev.

The National Rifle Association is using its muscle to fight a Nevada ballot question that would create a universal background check for gun purchases in the state.

The association announced last week that its lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action, launched a website encouraging people to vote against the measure, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

If passed, background checks would apply to private sales, including online and at gun shows.

The association says the measure is poorly written, costly and would make criminals out of law-abiding citizens.

52 activists arrested on trespassing charges

SEATTLE

Authorities cleared the railroad tracks of protesters and arrested 52 climate activists Sunday morning in Washington state after a two-day shutdown.

About 150 people spent the night in tents and sleeping bags on the tracks near two refineries in northwest Washington, according to BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas.

They were asked to leave at 5 a.m., and most gathered their belongings and left the area near Anacortes, Melonas said. The 52 people arrested were cited for trespassing, according to the Skagit County Department of Emergency Management.

Woman goes to hospital with shark attached to her arm

BOCA RATON, Fla.

News reports say a 23-year-old woman was bitten by a small nurse shark in Boca Raton.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance Sunday with the shark still attached to her arm.

A spokesperson for the Boca Raton Ocean Rescue told the newspaper the woman remained calm and there was a little blood. A splint board was used to support the woman’s arm and the shark as she lay on the stretcher.

The Boca Raton Regional Hospital operator told the AP that the woman had been treated and was in the process of being released Sunday afternoon.

Suicide bombing kills 25 in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives Sunday among policemen standing in line outside a police base in the southern Yemeni city of Mukalla, killing 25, security and health officials said. At least 17 more people were injured in the attack and the officials said the death toll was likely to rise.

The Yemeni affiliate of the extremist Islamist State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media networks by IS sympathizers.

Sunday’s victims were policemen returning to work for the first time since last month’s recapture of Mukalla by forces loyal to the internationally-recognized government.

Associated Press