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Officials in Alberta declared a state of emergency and widened the mandatory evacuation area around the Canadian city of Fort McMurray, forcing thousands of people who resettled just a day ago ahead of a raging wildfire to pick up and move again hursday. Shortly after midnight, Royal Canadian Mounted Police went oor-to-door south of the city to move residents in the communities of Anzac, Gregoire Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation, about 30 miles southeast, Fort McMurray Today and other local media reported. any of the 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray took refuge in the communities after evacuating their homes Tuesday and ednesday. On Thursday, they were traveling 180 miles farther south to the town of Lac La Biche. The Alberta government said Thursday that more than 1,110 irefighters, 145 helicopters, 138 pieces of heavy equipment and 22 air tankers were fighting a total of 49 wildfires in the province, with seven considered out of control.

Officials said conditions remained extreme and that strong winds were helping spread the fire. ALBERTA WILDFIRE Resettled evacuees driven out Left: A helicopter flies past a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Wednesday. Many who fled are to move 180 miles farther south HOW TO HELP Money can be sent to the Canadian Red Cross by calling 1-800-418-1111or visiting the website at redcross.ca, where it has set up an Alberta Fires Emergency Appeal. PHOTOS BY JASON FRANSON CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP Above: An evacuee puts gas in his car on his way out of Fort McMurray, Alberta, as a wildfire burns in the background Wednesday. DOUG STANGLIN TODAY No.

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GREAT FALLS FORECAST rural electric cooperatives have come up with a single statewide plan to protect birds from ower lines that they say is the first of its kind in the nation. The Avian Protection Plan, or APP, outlines what member cooperatives in the Montana Electric Association will do to prevent electrocution and collision deaths, said Gary Wiens, the assistant general manager. That includes installing insulated connections on the top of poles, bird-flight diverters on power lines and fiber glass or longer cross a rms. group of utilities in one state has ever jointly submitted a protection plan to the federal government or the Wiens said. ural electric cooperatives manage 56,000 miles of energized line in Montana and 25 cooperatives are association members, with 22 signing off on the plan.

Three cooperatives previously came up with their own plans. APP is basically like a blueprint for how you are going to reduce risks to birds on utility said Dave Wheelihan, the CEO. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- ice and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reviewed the plan, which was voluntary, and each agency applauded the effort. an important step aid Brent Esmoil, a deputy field supervisor for the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service in Helena. really gets the right people at the table together so that everybody knows involved and what steps they should be taking to reduce avian Besides protections, the plans spells out who should be notified Electric co-ops adopt avian plan TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO Arough-legged hawk takes to the air from a perch on a utility pole along Highway 223 south of Chester in 2005. Montana Electric Association has announced the completion of a statewide Avian Protection Plan. Association says blueprint is the first ofits kind in nation KARL PUCKETT DEER LODGE A Montana State rison inmate serving a life sentence for killing a convenience store clerk in Great Falls in 1986 has died in prison. rison officials say 55-year-old onald DuBray was found unre- ponsive in his cell Wednesday.

An autopsy is planned to determine the cause of death, but foul play is not suspected. uBray was con- icted of stabbing uzette Pritchard 24 times and taking $300 from the store. The case went un- olved for 11years. DuBray was harged in 1997 and convicted two ears later of robbery, felony theft and murder. DuBray finished a 27-year feder- a sentence for raping a Browning girl before he began his Montana sentence in August 2014.

DuBray, 37, was sentenced for killing Pritchard on her first solo shift at Town Pump in 1986. According to a 1999 Tribune story, besides the life sentence for homicide, 20 years for robbery and 10 years for theft, State District Judge Kenneth Neill ordered Du- prison wages garnished to pay $5,150 in restitution to family for her funeral. he family said at the time they would put the money in a scholars hip fund to help future teachers, ince Suzette was attending a Baptist college to become a religious chool teacher. Neill said he imposed the sentence because of ontinuous record of law including many violent crimes and especially the of his murder, in which Pritchard was grabbed from behind and stabbed repeatedly. hope you rot in prison and never experience a day of freedom as long as your sorry life said father, John, who testified via videotape from Colorado, said in the 1999 Tribune story.

say, God have mercy on your because, quite frankly, we think you deserve Pritchard was an outstanding young woman with an unlimited then-County Attorney Brant Light said. urder left a beautiful family In contrast, Light said, Inmate convicted in 1986 killing dies Man was serving life or slaying ofwoman ASSOCIATED PRESS AND GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE DuBray.