YARNELL Az ( A fire information officer says 19 firefighters are unaccounted for )

YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) — A fire information officer says 19 firefighters are unaccounted for while battling the Yarnell Hill Fire in a central Arizona community.

Mike Reichling told the Arizona Republic (http://bit.ly/158NjWp ) that 20 firefighters were involved in a "serious incident."


All died in fire R.I.P
 

The newspaper reports that one of the firefighters has been located.
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office has notified residents in the Peeples Valley area and in the town of Yarnell to evacuate.

Roxie Glover, spokeswoman at Wickenburg Community Hospital, told The Associated Press that the hospital has been told to expect residents with injuries and firefighters
Earlier Sunday, the fast-moving fire prompted evacuations of 50 homes in the Buckhorn, Model Creek and Double A Bar Ranch areas about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix.
In the afternoon, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office expanded the evacuations to include residents in the Peeples Valley area and in the town of Yarnell.
The wildfire also forced the closure of parts of state Route 89, the Arizona Department of Transportation announced. The department did not have an estimate of how long the closure would last but advised drivers to use U.S. 93 or Interstate 17 as alternate routes.

Dog News ( Chihuahua drug sniffing dog and Japan has " Momo" Japanese rescue dog )

Whoever thought a Chihuahua could be a police dog. Back in 2006 an innovative sheriff in Ohio came up with this novel idea while watching big dogs struggle to turn around inside a car, searching for drugs. He trained up his little Chihuahua to become what was then believed to be, the worlds smallest drug-sniffing dog.
Recently a Japanese police force adopted an open enrollment policy for search and rescue in their canine division. 70 Dogs competed for a spot and guess who made the grade? A 6.6 lb Chihuahua named Momo. The seven year old, long-haired Chihuahua was one of 32 successful candidates.

Momo - Japanese Rescue Dog (AP)

Momo will be used for rescue operations in disasters such as earthquakes, in the hope that she may be able to squeeze her tiny frame into places too narrow for German Shepherds, which tend to be the usual rescue dogs.
Watch this CBS News report, “Japan Hires a Chihuahua Police Dog” on YouTube
Looks like this little dog is a big deal.

Syria ( Syrian Jihadists behead Catholic priest - Graphic video 18 and older only ) What the hell is going on ? People cheering while christians are killed?

Anonymous blogger killled ? ( Anonymous threatens United States or Obama on youtube - Dressed like the Joker ) Wtf ?

Bahrain ( 17 yr old boy gets a year in jail - For insulting the King on twitter )

A lower criminal court in Bahrain, headed by a member of the ruling family, has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to a year in jail for insulting the Gulf island's king on Twitter.
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) on Saturday said Ali Al Shofa was arrested in a house raid at dawn on 12 March 2013. He spent two months in jail while under investigation.
Ali was accused of posting insulting comments about Sheikh Hamad Al-Khalifa using the account @alkawarahnews, which he denied a relationship with. His lawyer submitted evidence that the account was still being run by other people.
Human rights groups said the sentencing was part of a wider crackdown on freedom of speech in Bahrain.


Last month a court sentenced five twitter users to a year each in jail for insulting the king on twitter.
Earlier in June, the BCHR reported the abduction and incommunicado detention of Jaffar Al-Demstani for tweeting about the torture of his father, Ebrahim Al-Demstani.

Saudi Arabia ( 7 Human Rights activists get Prison time- for posting on Facebook )

Saudi Arabia has sentenced seven activists from its restive Eastern Province to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years for posting messages on Facebook calling for anti-government protests, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.


Minority Shia Muslims have held protests in Eastern Province over the past two years against alleged discrimination and negligence, which the Riyadh government denies.
"Sending people off to years in prison for peaceful Facebook posts sends a strong message that there's no safe way to speak out in Saudi Arabia, even on online social networks," said Joe Stork, HRW's deputy Middle East director.
The New York-based rights group urged EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and other European officials to condemn the convictions. Ashton was due to meet Gulf counterparts, including from Saudi Arabia, in Manama, Bahrain on Sunday.

"If the EU doesn't raise these cases with Saudi officials this weekend, its silence will look like craven compliance with the rights abuses of an authoritarian state."
Saudi Interior Ministry officials were not immediately available for comment.

TAMPA FL ( A Florida man killed a family puppy and cooked him - He was arrested )

TAMPA, FL - A Florida man is accused of strangling a family puppy, chopping it into pieces and cooking its ribs on the stove, Tampa police said.
Thomas Elliot Huggins, 25, was arrested Thursday after a family member called police.
"When officers arrived, they found the dog's ribs cooked in a pot on the stove," Tampa police said. "The dog's head was in the garbage."


Huggins had strangled the 5- to 6-month-old puppy and chopped it into quarters, storing pieces in the freezer for future meals, authorities said.
He was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty. Animal control officials took the remains of the puppy.


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