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Denton Record-Chronicle
Hope amid loss in Fort McMurray
90 percent of city
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By Rachel La Corte
Associated Press
FORT MCMURRAY, Alber-
ta — Charred bicycles lean on a
fence in front of incinerated
townhomes. Just across the
street, a school and playground
are untouched.
Across this Canadian oil sand
town, the contrast is repeated:
neighborhoods that burned to
their foundations, while other
neighborhoods, strip malls, car
dealerships, schools and hospi-
tals are still standing.
Nearly a week after people
started evacuating Fort McMur-
ray as a massive wildfire sur-
rounded them, more than 40
journalists were allowed into the
city Monday on a bus escorted
by police, as the forest surround-
ing the road into town still smol-
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On Sept. 8,1945, an allied correspondent stands in the rubble
in front of the shell of a building that once was a movie theater
in Hiroshima, Japan, a month after the first atomic bomb ever
used in warfare was dropped by the U.S.
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Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian Press/AP
A burned-out car and houses are viewed in the Beacon Hill neighborhood during a media tour
of the fire-damaged city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Monday.
The first neighborhood seen,
Beacon Hill, was an example of
the worst a fire can do.
At one lot, a barbecue sat in
the driveway, a few feet away
from a charred pickup, its
wheels melted into the ground,
the debris surrounding them the
scattered components of what
was once a house.
Lot by lot the scene was re-
peated: homes burned to their
foundation and reduced to rub-
media reports to find out the sta-
tus of their neighborhoods. He
briefly choked up while saying
he wanted them to know that
emergency responders “gave
their all.”
“We did our very best,” he
save 25,000 others, including
the hospital, municipal build-
ings and every functioning
school.
Fort McMurray “is a home
you are going to return to,” she
promised residents at a news
conference Monday.
Those 80,000 residents are
scattered throughout the prov-
ince, some staying at evacuation
centers, others with family and
friends.
Randy MacKenzie was filling
up his gas tank at Wandering
River Monday night, heading
south to Redwater, Alberta, with
eight dogs in kennels in his truck
and an attached trailer.
MacKenzie, who owns a
boarding kennel in Fort
McMurray, fled during the evac-
uation last week with 56 dogs
that were at the kennel at the
time the mandatory evacuation
order came down. He had
friends in a safe area keep his
four dogs.
On Monday, he was allowed
back in to pick up his dogs as
well as other dogs that belonged
to friends.
Though his boarding kennel
was in an area that was saved by
firefighters, his home was in
Beacon Hill.
MacKenzie hasn’t been back
to the neighborhood, which is
still under the mandatory evacu-
ation order, but he knows what
he’ll find when officials allow
residents to return.
“I know my house is gone,” he
140,000 people. A second
bomb, dropped on Nagasaki
three days later, killed 70,000.
The bombings scarred genera-
tions of Japanese, both physical-
ly and mentally, but many
Americans believe they has-
tened the end of World War II
and saved countless other lives.
Japan announced it would sur-
render on Aug. 15.
As for Obama’s visit, the Jap-
anese people are ready for this
moment, seven decades in the
making.
In a NHK television poll this
month, 70 percent of Japanese
respondents said they wanted
Obama to visit, compared to 2
percent against it.
Survivors, especially, have
long been waiting. The number
of survivors who are recognized
as hibakusha and entitled to
medical assistance from the Jap-
anese government was more
than 183,000 as of March. Their
average age is now over 80.
“The day has finally come,”
said 91-year-old Sunao Tsuboi, a
survivor of the bombing and
head of a survivors group in the
western Japanese city.
‘We are not asking for an
apology,” Tsuboi told NHK. “All
we want is to see him lay flowers
at the peace park and lower his
head in silence. This would be a
first step toward abolishing nu-
clear weapons.”
The president’s visit, at the
end of a previously announced
trip to Japan and Vietnam, has
been widely anticipated since
Secretary of State John Kerry
went to the Hiroshima memori-
al in April.
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi
Matsui praised Obama’s plan as
a “bold decision based on con-
science and rationality” and said
he hopes the president will listen
to survivors’ stories. Nagasaki
Mayor Tomihisa Taue said the
president would “send a power-
ful message, in his own words,
toward achieving a world with-
out nuclear weapons.”
White House says
apology for bomb
is not forthcoming
said.
Even with all of the personal
loss, nearly 90 percent ofthe city
is still standing, including the
downtown district. Allen said
that the fire got as close as the
comer of a bank, but firefighters
were able to fight back the
flames. If that had not been suc-
cessful, he said, downtown
would have been lost.
Alberta Premier Rachel Not-
ley said about 2,400 homes and
buildings were destroyed in the
city, but firefighters managed to
By Nancy Benac
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Eager to
heal old wounds and galvanize
new generations, President Ba-
rack Obama this month will be-
come the first sitting American
president to visit Hiroshima,
where seven decades ago the
U.S. dropped the devastating
atomic bomb that ushered in the
nuclear age.
By visiting the peace park
near the epicenter ofthe 1945 at-
tack, the president hopes to rein-
vigorate efforts worldwide to
eliminate nuclear weapons. But
in a sign ofthe extraordinary po-
litical sensitivities attached to
the gesture, the White House is
going out of its way to stress
Obama will not come bearing an
apology.
Deputy national security ad-
viser Ben Rhodes said flatly: “He
will not revisit the decision to
use the atomic bomb at the end
of World War II.” Instead,
Rhodes said in a statement,
Obama will spotlight the toll of
war and offer a “forward-
looking vision” of a non-nuclear
world.
ble.
A short drive away, nearly an
entire trailer park community
burned to the ground, the excep-
tion a single line of homes in the
last row.
Fort McMurray Fire Chief
Darby Allen said that he knew
residents were likely watching
said.
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
unclear if the motivation behind
targeting horses and ponies is
for play or profit.
At least six tail-hacking cases
have been reported to Michigan
police during the last month, in-
cluding the most recent last
Thursday that involved two
miniature ponies in Port Huron.
Last month, police in the Detroit
suburb of Trenton said three po-
nies and a horse had their tails
cut off. Similar incidents also
have been reported elsewhere in
the U.S.
St. Louis
Michael Brown’s mom’s
book recalls death, life
tough St. Louis neighborhoods,
her experiences raising Brown,
the devastation his shooting
brought, and her push to honor
his memory.
Taunton, Mass.
3 dead, 2 injured in
attacks at mall, house
Three people were killed and
two others injured Tuesday in
separate attacks at a shopping
mall and a home in Massachu-
setts, and the suspect was one of
the dead, authorities said.
State police said a man
stabbed two people at a Taunton
home, then crashed a car
through the front of a Macy’s
store at the Silver City Galleria
and stabbed two other people at
the mall. An off-duty law en-
forcement officer fatally shot the
unidentified suspect. Witnesses
described a chaotic scene and
said the mall was evacuated.
The stabbing victims were
taken to area hospitals, where
two later died from their inju-
ries. It’s unclear if the two dead
victims were stabbed at the
house or the mall. Their names
were not immediately released.
Authorities said the suspect
may have been involved in a car
crash on the street where the
first two stabbings took place.
Lezley McSpadden was tak-
ing a cigarette break from her
grocery store job when a friend
called to say someone had been
shot in the street near Canfield
Green Apartments in Ferguson.
Within minutes, her cell-
phone rang again. It was a fami-
ly member declaring the victim
was McSpadden’s 18-year-old
son, Michael Brown. The shoot-
er was a police officer.
The next moments that sul-
try August day grew more and
more intense as McSpadden’s
co-worker drove her to the scene
in the St. Louis suburb where
she quickly spotted clothing that
matched her son’s.
McSpadden recounts what
happened that fateful day two
summers ago in her autobiogra-
phy, Tell the Truth & Shame the
Devil, set to be released Tuesday
and co-written by Lyah Beth Le-
Flore.
Kenockee Township,
Mich.
Equine tail-hacking cases
reported in Mich.
Reports of equine tail-hack-
ing cases are on the rise in Mich-
igan and though authorities are
asking people to be on the look-
out for perpetrators, it remains
— The Associated Press
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, who will accompa-
ny Obama on the visit, said no
apology is expected — or neces-
sary.
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