Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Power REIT buys California solar farm

by David Winzelberg
Long Island Business News Published: July 15, 2013
Tags: California, Long Island, Pacific Gas & Electric, Power REIT, solar energy, Southern California Edison

10:12 am Mon, July 15, 2013 Old Bethpage-based Power REIT has closed on a $1.6 million acquisition of about 100 acres of land near Fresno, Calif. that it will use for solar energy products.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

New software provides free framework for collaborative research in visual field analysis

New software provides free framework for collaborative research in visual field analysis [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 9-Jul-2013
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Contact: Katrina Norfleet
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Rockville, Md. Vision researchers have developed new software that will analyze visual fields in an open-source platform to improve and encourage collaborative research among independent labs. An analysis of the free tool is presented in a Journal of Vision (JOV) paper, The visualFields package: A tool for analysis and visualization of visual fields.

In the paper, authors introduce and demonstrate the visualFields package, which can work separately or in conjunction with the Open Perimetry Interface an open-source software developed by Andrew Turpin, PhD, and described in a previous JOV article (The Open Perimetry Interface: An enabling tool for clinical visual psychophysics). The interface allows researchers to operate commercially available instruments called perimeters that are designed to examine the visual field of patients.

"With open-source resources like these, research can be conducted in a completely transparent manner," said author Ivn Marn-Franch, PhD, of the University of Valencia (Departamento de ptica at Universitat de Valncia) and formerly of Indiana University School of Optometry. "And unlike with most proprietary software, results can be verified and methods more closely scrutinized by independent researchers."

The visualFields package contains analytical and visualization tools, including methods for detection and follow-up of glaucoma. To demonstrate the visualFields package, the research team used the right eye of a patient with glaucoma who participated in the Bloomington longitudinal study. Results included four examples of visual field analysis along with the corresponding code used for their generation.

"The necessity for moving from proprietary software into a fully open-source framework has been in the psyche of the glaucoma research community for many years," said Marn-Franch. In looking at the future, he and his colleagues suggest that Open Perimetry Initiative (OPI) would allow groups or individual researchers to test their models with large datasets of real data that they would not have access to otherwise. They also propose centers with good infrastructure would be able conduct clinical trials using state-of-the-art methods for analyzing their data right away and without incurring any cost.

"But, the success of OPI relies strongly on active collaboration from every end of the research community: Some by donating their datasets, some by donating the implementations of their research methods," cautions Marn-Franch.

The researchers make clear that the visualFields package is not intended to replace well-tested, commercially available stand-alone software; rather, it is meant to be an environment for experimentation and research that is free and open for scientists to use and offer ways to improve upon it.

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The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest eye and vision research organization in the world. Members include some 12,000 eye and vision researchers from over 70 countries. ARVO encourages and assists research, training, publication and knowledge-sharing in vision and ophthalmology.

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Contact: Katrina Norfleet
240-221-2924
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Rockville, Md. Vision researchers have developed new software that will analyze visual fields in an open-source platform to improve and encourage collaborative research among independent labs. An analysis of the free tool is presented in a Journal of Vision (JOV) paper, The visualFields package: A tool for analysis and visualization of visual fields.

In the paper, authors introduce and demonstrate the visualFields package, which can work separately or in conjunction with the Open Perimetry Interface an open-source software developed by Andrew Turpin, PhD, and described in a previous JOV article (The Open Perimetry Interface: An enabling tool for clinical visual psychophysics). The interface allows researchers to operate commercially available instruments called perimeters that are designed to examine the visual field of patients.

"With open-source resources like these, research can be conducted in a completely transparent manner," said author Ivn Marn-Franch, PhD, of the University of Valencia (Departamento de ptica at Universitat de Valncia) and formerly of Indiana University School of Optometry. "And unlike with most proprietary software, results can be verified and methods more closely scrutinized by independent researchers."

The visualFields package contains analytical and visualization tools, including methods for detection and follow-up of glaucoma. To demonstrate the visualFields package, the research team used the right eye of a patient with glaucoma who participated in the Bloomington longitudinal study. Results included four examples of visual field analysis along with the corresponding code used for their generation.

"The necessity for moving from proprietary software into a fully open-source framework has been in the psyche of the glaucoma research community for many years," said Marn-Franch. In looking at the future, he and his colleagues suggest that Open Perimetry Initiative (OPI) would allow groups or individual researchers to test their models with large datasets of real data that they would not have access to otherwise. They also propose centers with good infrastructure would be able conduct clinical trials using state-of-the-art methods for analyzing their data right away and without incurring any cost.

"But, the success of OPI relies strongly on active collaboration from every end of the research community: Some by donating their datasets, some by donating the implementations of their research methods," cautions Marn-Franch.

The researchers make clear that the visualFields package is not intended to replace well-tested, commercially available stand-alone software; rather, it is meant to be an environment for experimentation and research that is free and open for scientists to use and offer ways to improve upon it.

###

ARVO's Journal of Vision (http://www.journalofvision.org) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open-access publication devoted to visual function in humans and animals. It explores topics such as spatial vision, perception, low vision, color vision and more, spanning the fields of neuroscience, psychology and psychophysics. JOV is known for hands-on datasets and models that users can manipulate online.

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest eye and vision research organization in the world. Members include some 12,000 eye and vision researchers from over 70 countries. ARVO encourages and assists research, training, publication and knowledge-sharing in vision and ophthalmology.

Visit us at:
Website: http://www.arvo.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/#!/ARVOinfo
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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Final Fantasy VII Available on Steam | Video Game Blog, Video ...

Published: 04 July 2013 2:14 PM UTC

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As of this morning you can now purchase Square Enix?s Final Fantasy VII on Steam for $11.99 or ?9.99.

This is a long-awaited release that Square Enix had been promising for quite a while, and we?re happy to inform you Steam gamers that you can now immerse yourself in the JRPG goodness of Final Fantasy VII through the power of Valve?s online software.

The game was originally released in 1997 for the original Sony Playstation console, and was the first of the Final Fantasy series to become as popular as it did, and it paved the way for an incredibly successful series of games and a worldwide franchise.

If you purchase and download a copy of Final Fantasy VII you?ll be happy to know that Steam Achievements have been added for the game, and it will use Cloud saving and storage so you can play it wherever and whenever you wish. Unfortunately this download is only available on PCs and not for Macs, hopefully a Mac version will become available in the future.

Square Enix have said previously that, despite popular demand, they will not be doing a full remake of the classic game because they are still aiming to release a Final Fantasy game ?of the same standard.? However, Final Fantasy fans can look forward to a few coming releases: Final Fantasy XIV, the MMORPG instalment for the series, will be rereleased in August for PC and PS3; later this year Final Fantasy X and X-2 will be rereleased in HD quality and February 2014 will see the release of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

So if you just can?t wait for these releases, get onto Steam and download Final Fantasy VII.


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The National Green Tribunal has stayed construction activity on the landfill site in Sector 123 here after a commission appointed by it found that the project had been formulated without following the guidelines. The Noida Authority has also been restrained from carrying out digging or construction till the next hearing.

The principal bench of the tribunal headed by its chairman, Justice Swatanter Kumar, imposed the stay based on the local commissioner?s report on the landfill?s distance from human habitations. The Authority officials are yet to appear before the tribunal to clarify their stance despite getting court notices. The commission filed its report ?TOI has a copy? with the tribunal on July 2.

The commission found that the Authority had started construction on the site without obtaining the mandatory approval from Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB). Habitations, including villages, residential sectors and ongoing housing projects, were found to be in proximity to the site on all sides in clear violation of the norms.

A petition had been filed by Go Green Welfare Association, a Noida-based organization of residents and homebuyers. Advocate Sumeer Sodhi had been appointed as commissioner by the tribunal. The report was prepared after Sodhi inspected the site on May 25 in the presence of senior Authority officials, including project engineers and the health department officials, UPPCB officials and representatives of the residents? association.

The petitioners had alleged that the site chosen was amid habitations, which is in violation of the Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 2000. A landfill cannot be near a residential cluster, a state highway or a river.

Source: The Times of India, Delhi/NCR

Source: http://content.magicbricks.com/green-panel-stays-construction-at-noida-landfill-site/

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Friday, July 5, 2013

In Venezuelan capital, a 'plague' of motorcycles

In this photo taken Friday, June 21, 2013, motorcyclists ride in a single file between traffic lanes in Caracas, Venezuela. Transportation infrastructure has been neglected for decades leading to traffic congestion so bad that Caracas is almost always best navigated on motorcycle. A two-hour car drive to work can take less than half an hour on the back of a bike. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this photo taken Friday, June 21, 2013, motorcyclists ride in a single file between traffic lanes in Caracas, Venezuela. Transportation infrastructure has been neglected for decades leading to traffic congestion so bad that Caracas is almost always best navigated on motorcycle. A two-hour car drive to work can take less than half an hour on the back of a bike. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Venezuelan firefighters give first aid to an unidentified man after he lost control of his motorcycle, in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela is the world's third-worst country for motor vehicle-related deaths with 37.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to a World Health Organization global road safety study published this year. It's not clear how many of those involved motorcycles. But news of accidents are a constant on the radio, and one recent report said the more than a dozen hospitals in the capital treat at least 100 motorcycle injuries a week - apiece. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Mototaxi driver, Fidel Suarez, reflected in his rearview mirror, rides through a highway tunnel in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, July 4, 2013. Mototaxis, once essentially unheard of in this South American country, await customers on every other street corner in the downtown business district. At rush hour everyone from working-class laborers to lawyers in business suits can be seen hopping on the back of motorcycles. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A motorcyclist rides through a highway tunnel in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, July 4, 2013. The two-wheel invasion began about a decade ago with the arrival of Chinese-made motorcycles that sell for just a few hundred dollars, and has since exploded, causing Caracas residents to rant at the locust-like swarms of motorcycles that blow through red lights and ignore one-way traffic signs with impunity, becoming a serious public health and safety issue. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this photo taken Friday, June 21, 2013, a family on a motorcycle sits in traffic in Caracas, Venezuela. The two-wheel invasion began about a decade ago with the arrival of Chinese-made motorcycles that sell for just a few hundred dollars, and has since exploded, causing Caracas residents to rant at the locust-like swarms of motorcycles that blow through red lights and ignore one-way traffic signs with impunity, becoming a serious public health and safety issue. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

(AP) ? Ronald Alvarez was driving in chaotic, bumper-to-bumper traffic when he heard a throaty buzz and insistent "Beep! Beep! Beep!" approaching rapidly from behind.

Motorcyclists in Venezuela's capital are known for zipping between lanes and taking off side mirrors, either inadvertently or with malicious intent if they feel a driver hasn't left enough room. So Alvarez swerved to the side to open up space for this one, rear-ending a car that had slammed on its brakes in the process.

"It is the worst plague there is right now in Caracas," Alvarez fumed about the proliferation of motorcycles.

Alvarez's complaint is echoed by many residents of this capital of narrow streets, where the transportation infrastructure has been neglected for decades leading to traffic congestion so bad that it is almost always best navigated on motorcycle. A two-hour car drive to work can take less than half an hour on the back of a bike.

The two-wheel invasion began about a decade ago with the arrival of Chinese-made motorcycles that sell for just a few hundred dollars, and has since exploded, causing Caracas residents to rant at the locust-like swarms of motorcycles that blow through red lights and ignore one-way traffic signs with impunity, becoming a serious public health and safety issue.

Gangs of armed, two-wheeled political shock troops backed by the government terrorize voters and break up opposition protests. Motorcycles are also favored by robbers and hit-men, and are involved in 90 percent of violent crimes in this murderous city, according to an estimate by a prominent criminologist.

In 2011 the government finally passed a law that was supposed to help crack down on the lawlessness, but nearly two years later there's practically zero enforcement and people say the problem is only getting worse. For many the motorcycle has become a potent symbol of anarchy and ungovernability in a troubled nation.

"For me, the problem of motorcyclists has become a matter of public health," said Fermin Marmol Garcia, a criminologist who reached the 90 percent figure on motorcycles' involvement in violent crime by analyzing data from the government and NGOs. "It's no longer just a crime issue, a violence issue. It's a matter of public health."

Venezuela is the world's third-worst country for motor vehicle-related deaths with 37.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to a World Health Organization global road safety study published this year. Only the Dominican Republic and Thailand scored worse.

It's not clear how many of those involved motorcycles. But news of accidents are a constant on the radio, and one recent report said the more than a dozen hospitals in the capital treat at least 100 motorcycle injuries a week ? apiece.

Spend an hour or so on the streets of Caracas, and you might see every conceivable traffic rule broken.

Streams of up to 50 bikes zoom between lanes of motionless cars. Dozens park on the sidewalk, blocking pedestrians' passage. Families of four ride a single motorcycle. Bikers mass under overpasses during storms, choking off traffic.

"It's like people transform when they get on a motorcycle," said taxi driver Samuel Tarazon, who last year watched one flatten an elderly man in a crosswalk. "It's such a violent manner of driving."

Police largely look the other way and some say they are among the worst offenders. Many government motorcycles circulate without license plates and are apparently not even registered.

Part of the problem is that while the 2011 law bars all the violations listed above, a separate statute that would establish penalties has repeatedly been delayed. So even if a cop were inclined to stop a driver for riding without a helmet, he couldn't write out a ticket because there's no rule that says how much the fine should be.

Experts say motorcyclists' sense of impunity has helped drive an even more troubling trend, that of the vehicles being used to commit crimes.

Armed robbers on motorcycles regularly prey on helpless motorists caught in bumper-to-bumper gridlock, where police patrol cars have no way to respond to a call.

"I'm in a traffic jam and they go like this on the window," said Alvarez, imitating the sound of a gun butt tapping on glass. "What else can I do? I roll down the window. 'Give me everything you have.' Here you go, brother. I'm not going to risk my life for material belongings."

Motorcycle gangs have spread and made a tradition of forming boozy caravans after the funeral of one of their own, deliberately jamming up traffic to demand "contributions" from motorists or rob them outright.

Last month, in a case that shocked even calloused Caracas residents for its audacity, as many as 40 bikers in one such procession relieved dozens of drivers of their wallets, purses, laptops and cellphones on a main road in the suburb of Macaracuay.

Newspaper crime pages are full of accounts of murders carried out from bike-back. And earlier this year a 17-year-old Caracas girl was raped by two men after the mototaxi driver she hired delivered her to her attackers.

There are some signs that President Nicolas Maduro is serious about tackling the problem. He speaks much more frequently than his predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez, about combatting crime.

"The full weight of the law will fall upon anyone who does not adjust to the rules," Interior and Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said last month.

Authorities said recently they are negotiating with motorcycle clubs on the language of the regulations.

Some of the gangs have powerful political ties, having been encouraged by the government to organize after a failed coup attempt against Chavez in 2002.

When Chavez died this March, one such gang roughed up students who had been protesting near the Supreme Court. A month later, around election day, militants on motorcycles threw a firebomb into a political party office and vandalized a bakery they said belonged to an opposition supporter.

"When you feed little monsters and those monsters grow, they take on a life of their own," Marmol Garcia said. "And perhaps ... the anarchy of the motorcycle union is a monster that today has great power and will cause great concern in the political establishment as it tries to rein them in."

For a case study Venezuela need look no further than neighboring Colombia, where motorcycles were once synonymous with drug cartel assassins. Authorities there have made significant strides by enforcing registration rules and helmet and reflective vest requirements, outlawing mototaxis and letting mayors prohibit motorcycle passengers during times of unrest.

There are about 275,000 registered motorcycles in Venezuela today, according to the most recent census in this nation of 28 million, though the true number likely exceeds 800,000, El Universal newspaper recently reported.

Yet the motorcycle boom has also made life easier for many and allowed countless Venezuelans to earn an honest living as drivers, couriers and so on.

Mototaxis, once essentially unheard of, await customers on every other street corner in the downtown business district. At rush hour everyone from working-class laborers to lawyers in business suits can be seen hopping on the back of motorcycles.

Henry Frias, a 35-year-old bank worker, frequently takes mototaxis to cut what would be an hour-and-a-half, 5-mile (8-kilometer) morning commute by bus, to just 15 minutes.

"I have to be there by 8:00 a.m., but with the stoplights and the traffic it's impossible," Frias said recently, dressed in gray slacks and a pressed white dress shirt. "It has its dangers because with a mototaxi you're often at risk of suffering any kind of accident ... but this is the surest way to arrive on time."

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Gene mutations caused by a father's lifestyle can be inherited by multiple generations

Gene mutations caused by a father's lifestyle can be inherited by multiple generations [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 1-Jul-2013
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New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that moderate paternal exposures, such as cigarette smoking, can increase the number of mutations transmitted to their children, and even the next generation

Bethesda, MD -- Gene mutations caused by a father's lifestyle can be inherited by his children, even if those mutations occurred before conception. What's more, these findings show that mutations in the germ-line are present in all cells of the children, including their own germ cells. This means that a father's lifestyle has the potential to affect the DNA of multiple generations and not just his immediate offspring. These findings were published in the July 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal.

"Our study should be regarded as a pilot study," said Roger Godschalk, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Toxicology and the School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. "We hope that our findings support the initiation of new, more elaborate studies that investigate the role of daily life exposures on germ-line mutations transmitted to offspring."

To make this discovery, Godschalk and colleagues looked at two groups of families (father, mother and child) from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. The first group had a low yearly income, whereas the second group had a relatively high yearly income. The investigators chose income as a criterion because it generally correlates to lifestyle choices of the parents. For instance, fathers in the low income group were more often cigarette smokers than fathers in the high income group. Researchers looked for DNA mutations in the children and found that they were more frequent in the group with low income fathers than in the group of high income fathers. These results suggest that the parents living conditions before conception may directly impact the health of their children.

"We've known for a very long time that preventive care among expectant mothers is critical to the health and well-being of their children," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "Now, we're learning that fathers don't get a free pass. How they take care of themselveseven before conceptionaffects the genetic makeup of their children, for better or worse."

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Receive monthly highlights from The FASEB Journal by e-mail. Sign up at http://www.faseb.org/fjupdate.aspx. The FASEB Journal is published by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). It is among the most cited biology journals worldwide according to the Institute for Scientific Information and has been recognized by the Special Libraries Association as one of the top 100 most influential biomedical journals of the past century.

FASEB is composed of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States. Our mission is to advance health and welfare by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to its member societies and through collaborative advocacy.

Details: Joost O. Linschooten, Nicole Verhofstad, Kristine Gutzkow, Ann-Karin Olsen, Carole Yauk, Yvonne Oligschlger, Gunnar Brunborg, Frederik J. van Schooten, and Roger W. L. Godschalk. Paternal lifestyle as a potential source of germline mutations transmitted to offspring. FASEB J July 2013 27:2873-2879; doi:10.1096/fj.13-227694 ; http://www.fasebj.org/content/27/7/2873.abstract


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Contact: Cody Mooneyhan
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Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that moderate paternal exposures, such as cigarette smoking, can increase the number of mutations transmitted to their children, and even the next generation

Bethesda, MD -- Gene mutations caused by a father's lifestyle can be inherited by his children, even if those mutations occurred before conception. What's more, these findings show that mutations in the germ-line are present in all cells of the children, including their own germ cells. This means that a father's lifestyle has the potential to affect the DNA of multiple generations and not just his immediate offspring. These findings were published in the July 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal.

"Our study should be regarded as a pilot study," said Roger Godschalk, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Toxicology and the School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. "We hope that our findings support the initiation of new, more elaborate studies that investigate the role of daily life exposures on germ-line mutations transmitted to offspring."

To make this discovery, Godschalk and colleagues looked at two groups of families (father, mother and child) from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. The first group had a low yearly income, whereas the second group had a relatively high yearly income. The investigators chose income as a criterion because it generally correlates to lifestyle choices of the parents. For instance, fathers in the low income group were more often cigarette smokers than fathers in the high income group. Researchers looked for DNA mutations in the children and found that they were more frequent in the group with low income fathers than in the group of high income fathers. These results suggest that the parents living conditions before conception may directly impact the health of their children.

"We've known for a very long time that preventive care among expectant mothers is critical to the health and well-being of their children," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "Now, we're learning that fathers don't get a free pass. How they take care of themselveseven before conceptionaffects the genetic makeup of their children, for better or worse."

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Receive monthly highlights from The FASEB Journal by e-mail. Sign up at http://www.faseb.org/fjupdate.aspx. The FASEB Journal is published by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). It is among the most cited biology journals worldwide according to the Institute for Scientific Information and has been recognized by the Special Libraries Association as one of the top 100 most influential biomedical journals of the past century.

FASEB is composed of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States. Our mission is to advance health and welfare by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to its member societies and through collaborative advocacy.

Details: Joost O. Linschooten, Nicole Verhofstad, Kristine Gutzkow, Ann-Karin Olsen, Carole Yauk, Yvonne Oligschlger, Gunnar Brunborg, Frederik J. van Schooten, and Roger W. L. Godschalk. Paternal lifestyle as a potential source of germline mutations transmitted to offspring. FASEB J July 2013 27:2873-2879; doi:10.1096/fj.13-227694 ; http://www.fasebj.org/content/27/7/2873.abstract


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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/foas-gmc070113.php

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Ariz. fire chief: Shelters are 'last-ditch effort'

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) ? A fire chief says lightning sparked a number of wildfires near Prescott, Ariz., the day a nearby blaze killed 19 members of an elite "Hotshots" fire crew.

Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo says he was assigned to another fire when he received a call Sunday afternoon from someone assigned to the deadly fire.

He says he learned 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots had deployed their portable emergency shelters while battling the blaze near the small town of Yarnell.

Fraijo describes the shelters as a "last-ditch effort to save yourself."

One man on the 20-member Hotshot crew survived, and that was because he was moving the unit's truck at the time. Fraijo says the survivor "feels terribly, and we all feel terribly."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ariz-fire-chief-shelters-last-ditch-effort-231656447.html

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