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A4 TA A I I DAY 1 2 2 NEWS NationalReport Family files lawsuit in death on ride DES MOINES, IOWA The fam- ily of an 11-year old boy who died on a water ride at an Iowa amusement park a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit in state court Thursday, alleging the park failed to properly maintain and repair its rides. David and Sabrina Jaramillo of Cedar Rapids and three of their children filed the lawsuit against Adventureland Park in the Des Moines suburb of Altoona. They and 11-year old Michael Jaramillo were on the Raging River ride at the park on July 3 when the raft carrying all six family members flipped, trap- ping them beneath the water. Michael Jaramillo drowned and other family members were injured. Weather helps crews tame fast-moving fire BRIDGEPORT, CALIF.

Improv- ing weather helped firefighters stop the spread of a Sierra Ne- vada wildfire that forced evacua- tion of several hundred people from their homes and injured seven firefighters, authorities said Thursday. The Rices fire remained at 904 acres while containment in- creased to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Firefighters were aided by cooler weather and an increase in humidity, Cal Fire said. The wildfire began with a build- ing fire Tuesday in Nevada County near the Yuba River. It burned that building and three nearby out- buildings, fire officials said.

Associated Press Associated Press MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WYO. Yellowstone National Park is re- opening its flood-damaged north loop at noon Saturday, in time for the Fourth of July holiday week- end, park officials said Thursday. The announcement means most of the park will be open again after June 13 flooding closed first national park and forced 10,000 visitors to leave as water, rocks and mud washed out roads and bridges. pleased to reopen the north loop of Yellowstone to the visiting public less than three weeks after this major flood said Superintendent Cam Sholly. have attempted to balance major recovery efforts while re- opening as much of the park as The north loop includes Norris Junction, Mammoth Hot Springs, Tower-Roosevelt and Canyon Junction.

Visitors can enter the park via West Yellowstone, Cody, and the south entrance near Jackson, Wyo. The north and northeast en- trance gates at Gardiner and Cooke City remain closed, and visitors cannot access the wildlife-rich La- mar Valley because flooding washed out roads in the area. Road repairs could take years, park offi- cials have said, but they hope to have a temporary solution to travel between Tower-Roosevelt and the northeast entrance near Cooke City before winter. The entire park was closed June 14-21 due to historic flooding that hit just as the summer tourist sea- son was picking up in the 150th-anniversary year. The south loop which in- cludes Old Faithful and other gey- sers, Yellowstone Lake and Hayden Valley reopened June 22.

Yellowstone set to reopen its north loop amid repairs BRIEFLY By Don Thompson Associated Press SACRAMENTO, CALIF. The California Assembly on Thursday approved a con- troversial bill allowing Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco to set up places where opioid users could le- gally inject drugs in super- vised settings. The move follows more than a year of legislative con- sideration, with proponents saying it would save lives and detractors saying it would enable drug addiction. The approval sends the bill back to the state Senate for final consid- eration in August, after lawmakers return from a monthlong summer recess. Senators approved a slightly different version more than a year ago, with no votes to spare.

The idea is to give people who would use drugs any- way a location to inject them while trained staff are avail- able to help if they suffer ac- cidental overdoses. The move comes amid a national opioid crisis and spike in overdose deaths, particularly if users inadver- tently ingest drugs spiked with fentanyl. New York City in Decem- ber opened the first two pub- licly recognized overdose prevention sites in the United States, intervening in more than 150 overdoses, al- though its operation does not have federal approval to operate. Rhode Island ap- proved testing such centers for two years. The U.S.

Justice Depart- ment under the Biden admin- istration recently signaled it might be open to allowing the sites with a turnaround from the Trump administra- tion, which won a lawsuit blocking a safe consumption site in Philadelphia. The measure passed the Assembly on a 42-28 vote, one more vote than needed. But it had bipartisan oppo- sition amid a sometimes per- sonal debate. Two members, Carlos Villapudua and Fred- die Rodriguez, disclosed that their brothers had each died of complications from drug abuse, and they were among Democrats who spoke against the proposal. is not the one thing that is going to stop the fen- tanyl or opioid epidemic in our state, but it will help.

It will help and it will save said Democratic As- semblyman Matt Haney, a former San Francisco super- visor who represented the troubled Tenderloin neigh- borhood and carried the bill in the Assembly. But some members of each party said the sites only make things worse, as law- makers cited dueling statis- tics from locations in other nations. our kids the mes- sage that going to help you manage your drug is not the said GOP Assemblyman Kelly Seyarto. About 700 San Franciscans died of accidental drug over- doses in 2020, a record. Those deaths exceeded the number of individuals who died of in 2020, when 261 deaths from the coronavirus were re- corded, San Francisco Mayor London Breed noted.

She cited skyrocketing drug over- dose rates in her declaration of an emergency in the Ten- derloin neighborhood. Los Angeles County was on pace to have 1,000 opioid deaths in 2021, though not all such deaths come from injec- tions. Across the nation, drug overdose deaths exceeded 100,000 from April 2020 to April 2021, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention, includ- ing about 10,000 Californians. Move to allow opioid injection sites advances ASSOCIATED PRESS Assemblyman Carlos Villapudua (D-Stockton) spoke Thursday about his death due to complica- tions from drug abuse in his opposition to the injec- tion-site measure.

ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNE 22 Visitors to Yellowstone National south loop walk along a boardwalk in Upper Geyser Basin. ASSOCIATED PRESS Robot, replica rendezvous A crewless robotic boat retracing the 1620 voyage of the Mayflower landed Thursday near Plymouth Rock, Mass. The Mayflower Autonomous Ship docked in Plymouth Harbor near a replica of its namesake, which brought the Pilgrims to America from England more than 400 years ago..