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Show Be The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/THE WEST Burglars usestolen dolly, forklift to break into DMV Monday, July 28, 2003 Glacier Parkfire slowed by light winds around the park that had blackened 44,500 acres by TH ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST GLACIER, Mont. — Light winds Sunday slowed the advance of a 9,300-acre wildfire threatening buildings at Glacier National Park headquarters Well organized: [nvestigators say the perpetrators, who stolea safe full of money andlicensing documents, likely were familiar with thesites which form the western and southern boundaries of the park,said fire information officer Andy Williams. Officials said thefire was 3% miles from both towns. Evacuation plans were prepared for residents of DMV, They didn’t want to take a number. Early Sunday morning, unidentified suspects with a stolen forklift and dolly in tow broke into the Department of Motor icles hard. say Before hitting the DMV on 2880 S. 380 West around 7:30 a.m., South Salt Lake police Detec: tive Darin Sweetensaid the suspects broke into a carpet businessa half-block away to steal a forklift and pickup truck. They equipment to the DMV, broke in possibility the theft was committedby current or former DMVemployees. Butdespite their knowledge of thebuilding, Jodi Monaco,publicinformationofficerfor the By Derek P. Jensen The Salt Lake Tribune office in South Sait Lake and used the ware tosteal two fully loadedsafes, police drove the and took the said there is no evidence the burglary was committed employees. by current or ‘None that we know of,” Monaco sa would be unfortunateif that was the case. Sweetensaid the safes contained “asignifi cant amount” of money as weil as a large number of temporary license plates andregistration stickers. Those license numbers will be audited, Monaco said, with each one to be placed on a nationalstolen registry list. Meanwhile, the South Salt Lake DMV office will be closed today andperhapslonger. “We have a substantial amount of cleanup todo and someequipmenttoreplace,” Monaco lies then loaded theminto the truck with the forklift, Sweeten said From there, Sweeten said, the burglars drove back to the carpet business where they unloaded thesafes into a stolen cargo van and escaped. They remain at large. “It was obviouslyan organized burglary to have some working knowledgeof both ofthose businesses,” theofficer said. Phone and power cables at both the DMV said. Registration and other DMVbusiness will Public sufety news from Tribunestaffandwire reports Man knocked from inner tube, drownsin river A 47-year-old Morgan man drownedin the Weber River Saturday whena low-hanging branch struck him in the head, knocking him off the inner tube hewasriding,police say. Steve Largent was pronounceddeadaf ter being Life Flighted to Mckay Dee Hospital, according to Sgt Blaine Breshearswith the Morgan County Sheriff's Office be conducted as usual at two other locations. Motorists are directed tovisit either the South Jordan office at 10433 South Redwood Road or the Farmington office at 28 East StateSt. in the Davis County Courthouse. Monaco said the Salt Lake DMVwill re- openlater this week. Development opposed by residents © Continued from BI residents during debates at council meetings before the council’s 3-1 vote last Wednesday night to approve the masterplan. the project Morgan whenthe accident oc curred around7:30p.m. near the thigh, the 43-year-old pulled himself nearly 200 feet up moving train Sunday morning while attempting to cross through an open boxcar. Ogden police Lt. Mark Acker said the man told police he was fishing in a remote area of west Ogden near 2900 South around 5 a.m. Sunday when hetried to cross the tracks through the moving train. After the impact, which carved the tracks where Acker said he madea fire with someof his clothing, apparently to attract attention and help. Acker said the man managed to crawlanother35 feetto start a fire in the bushes before someone on anothertrain saw him. “He estimates he spent an hour anda half out there before he was spotted,” Ackersaid.“I don’t know written statement of understanding agreed uponbySITLA’s project manager Lee Schwendiman to address them amounted to more than what was required of other de- nicest development in Cedar City,” said Schwendiman, add- velopers, “We haveto be consistent with how wetreat [develop- ing that the golf course recon- some ofthe concerns expressed ers],” said Thompson. “Are we by currentresidents in the area. setting a precedence?” Amongthose concerns are that SITLA remain an active partner in the project until it is complet- Bittmenntold the council that the written stipulations were ed, a conservation easement be implemented and overseen by a in guess the heatcauterized it. But he showed amazing strength and determination.” A railroad yard employee just a restatement of what was already included in the master struction hopefully will be LDSHospital in Salt Lake City and was in intensive care late Sunday pending possible amputation of oneor both legs, The man’s name was not re leased pending family. “Ym working with [Schwen: diman] to conveythings that we wantassured,like size of homes Hesaid six private developers ments for a nice subdivision is have expressed interest in the project. conservation group and public inputbe obtained from local residents when developing the Schwendiman assured the council that he planned to work dent whowill be affected by the proposal, is concerned with the project’s covenants, conditions andrestrictions. Council members John West- with “diligence” to address con- cernsof disgruntled home- owners. He said SITLA has success- aesthetics of putting a large numberofhomes in what is now open space. “Theloss ofthe canyonitself, the ioss of the beauty is a concern,” says Pectol, who represents residents’ concerns in negotiations with SITLA. what weare hopingfor.” She said while Schwendiman has been receptive to residents’ concerns,troubling elements re- main unknown, such as how much the quarter- and half-acre lots will cost when the whole project is completed. “T've heard the lots will sell anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000,” said Pectol. “What if they start building and the de- mandis not there?” partnership with a private developer yet “As long as they meetall thecity requiremehtsfor en: gineering standards, de Afire on 1600 Beck Street burnedthree junked cars and an abandoned trailer Sunday but crews were ableto protect nearby drums ofgasoline andoil, accordingtoSalt Lake City Fire requirements, sewers and city ordinances, we have to treat them [SITLA] like we would any other private property owner who wants to develop their land,” says city attorney Paul Bittmenn. There are obvious benefits to the project, he says. spokesman Scott Freitag. No in: Juries were reported in the blaze, whichFreitag said took crews 45 minutes to extinguish. Investiga- “When people buy houses they'll pay property taxes and {Iron County}, the city, state and schooldistrict will get a tors arelookingfora cause, but Freitag said hesuspectstran sients who haveunintentionally portion of the taxes,” Bittmenn says. “Trust Lands right now pays zero taxes on started a number of small blazes in the area this summer. theproperty.” Bittmenn said beyond some possible road work in the future, the city will not be Red flagged items we Fire burns abandoned trailer, junked cars 50% OFF White flagged items responsiblefor any ofthede- WILDFIRE WATCH 33% OFF velopment costs, including the new golf course holes that are being hailed as an im provement by golf pro John Evans, Councilman Raymond Green voted against approval threeofthe other four council members attending the meet ing refused to amend the mas- oT 20% OFF ter plan with alist ofwritten stipulations binding SITLA to the project hedrew up. Green said he wanted the 3500 South 900 East, SLC ‘Acses burned this year: 87,577 1 ~ Bulldog fire Burning in thick forest in the Henry Mountains, this biaze has scorched 31,738 acres. The fire, ignited by Sparks fromanall-terrain vehicle on July 8, was about 80 percent contained 2 ~ Timber Top fire Thislightning-caused fire, burning in the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park, had leveled out at 287 acres by Sunday. Park officials are monitoring the blaze, which started July 17in an area identified as Needing fire for ecological purposes. The La Verkin Creek trail is closed. 3 ~ Black Rock fire * Blue flagged items of the plan, however, after Aue iss us $ > See why UtahnsChooseLifestyles 2000 First for Fitness Summer itness S GATi This fire about 30 miles west of Spanish Fork had burned 482 acres as of Sunday and was about 40 percent contained 4- Cottonwood fire Started by lightning on Thursday and burning near the Utah-Colorado state line, about 50 miles northeast of Moab,this fire had consumed nearly 200 acres by late Sunday and was 30 percent contained. NEWSTIP HOTLINE See or know of something weneed to be covering? 257-8742 of Derek P. Jensen before any home construction begins. Jenny Pectol, a currentresi- masterplan to please residents. notification type of homes, exterior color, roofing and fence heights,” Pectol said after Wednesday’s meet: ing. “The standard require- started this year and completed plan. go beyond whatis required in the a former paramedic administered first aid. The injured man then was transported by Life Flight to why he didn’t bleed to death. I “Our intentis tomakethis the to be named. Sundayin the Modoc National Forest. Along with the erratic windin the area just south ofthe Oregonstate one leg below the knee and one ter plan provisions, and adding Breshears said Largent was tub. across 4,000 acres of grass, sage and juniper early An Ogden man was in critical fully developed two similar projects with Cedar City and will ceived at statehood, will build earlier in the week. In northern California, erratic wind dreve flames but stable condition and faced a possible double leg amputation after being struck by a slow- SITLA, which is responsi- wood, Georgia Thompson and ble for generating incomefor Steve Wood said Green’s conthe state’s perpetual school cerns were redundant with mas- fund from property Utah re- Wildfires have turned deadlyin Arizona, where a helicopter crash Saturday killed onefirefighter and the pilot. Another helicopter pilot died Friday in Washington. In Idaho, two firefighters were killed The blaze was one of three major blazes in and djensen@sitrib.com aboutthreemiles west of ing with his wife andtwokids the park entrance town of West Glacier, and for remaining workers at Glacier National Park’s headquarters. Undersheriff Chuck Curry said evacuations were notlikely on Sunday. former safes outside the building using handcart dol FoR THE RECORD and more than 500 homes andcabins outside the park. Planscalled for defensive burning of5,000 acres along the Middle Fork and North Fork of the Flathead River, and McRae Sales, 2747 South LemelCircle, were cut priorto the break-ins. Sweeten said investigators will look into the Sunday. Large fires were also burning in other states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, } w Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming,the National Interagency Fire Center reported. aoe es $99enrolmentfee a os iret é |