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Show . . . Public safety personnel from every jurisdiction in the volley helped cor- - ROAD BLOCK don off the area to traffic to allow the FAA to vestigote the crosh site. CLEAN UP . . . County Sheriffs Deputies begin the removal of the last large piece of wreckage left over from Thursday's mid-ai- r collision over Kearns. This section of fuselage blocked neighborhood street until Saturday. It wos taken to the collection point set up at the Sheriffs Deportment s Kearns where federal officials will try to reconstruct both planes. n IP; MUTE EVIDENCE " Bill ,4 Suitcase blown oport from the crosh sits otop a squad cor in the parking lot of . . . Hi tim'MMHBai X St. Francis Xavier Catholic School where Sheriff's office established its command post. the I Planes Crash Over Kearns Continued from page wierd standing out there and hearing the radio reports of body parts being found right in my own neighborhood and not being able to leave. We had a lot of guys out there for hours without complaining, he noted. They just did their job and didnt question it. The first reports had the plane involved with a school, and we wanted to make sure plane didnt hit the school. Casanova explained of his role in the tragedy. My concern was also in securing the area," he noted. We went directly to the command post to receive an assignment. Basically I was assisting to the west of the area where there was a lot of traffic. For the first hour or so it was like pandemoneum, McCarthy pointed out. Every available West Valley unit was up there. Our detective division did the initial sweep looking for bodies or plane parts. Even our animal control officers were involved in traffic control. he noted. There were a lot of sightseers who wanted to go up there just to see what was going on, McCarthy said. Theyd get sick and then we d be the bad guys for letting them up there. We had a big problem with sightseers for the first two or three hours. 1 There were all kinds of kooks out there, Casanova added. I heard a call from one of the officers over the air that he almost got run over by a gentlemen who disregarded his signals and was dragged by the vehicle. We arrested that gentlman. In another incident, he said, a gentleman came through a police line claiming he was a Salt Lake County fire investigator. He also said he was with the FAA, the FBI and just about everyone else. He was also intoxicated, Casanova observed. We called Salt Lake dispatch and they had no record of him, so he was he said. We didn't also arrested. transport him to the jail - the county took him away. But when we searched his car we did find a gun. "I had one young girl slap me around a little, McCarthy said, but I was just too cold and tired to even bother arresting her. She said she lived there and wanted to go up a street that was blocked off, so I asked her for some ID with an address. She told me she didnt have to show me anything. heexpained. When he attempted to detain her, the woman began to hit him. There were some live power lines down, so we attempted to hold her back when she lit into me. After a while I just let go - but I did tell her about the -- Student Transportation Continued from page 1 to relay messages to the schools, Halliday said. Two-waradio communication was the only communicatio we had. The lines were either down or busy and we couldn't get through on any of them, he said. We had to deal with the situation without direct telephone communication. We finally got a line about 4 oclock - but only at the junior high. About two dozen bus drivers were In involved in the evacuation. order to better organize the situation, the students who were normally bused were taken home first. The drivers knew were they wre supposed to go and got the job done quickly, he explained. After they finished that, the brought the buses back in and transported the students who normally walked to school back to their own neighborhoods. In a few cases there was some confusion in getting where they wanted to go - with all the roadblocks there were detours along back roads and around blocks, he said. Getting special education students y -- home, he said, was of particular concern. We also had a lot of parents call in to find our about their kids, so we'd find them throug the radio and relay the message back if they were still on the bus. Halliday praised the Granite employees w'ho assisted in the I cant say enough evacuation. he said. about the bus drivers, "They displayed both tremendous efficeincy and some courageous efforts to help out in this emergency. Because of their efforts, we had most of the kids home by 5 o'clock. power lines. The power lines, though, were not the only worries. When we first got there, we envisioned all kinds of things - gas leaks, people buried in houses - all kinds of things, Casanova said. There was a lot of confusion at first just exactly what had occurred. The incident, however, had its positive side as far as police work is concerned, he noted.. Im a training officer and I had a trainee with me out on traffic detail just as we were getting the call, he explained. After we arrived, we gave her a location on the perimeter. With all the people trying to come in, she got some real traffic experience real fast. Luckily didnt have too much going on at the time (in West Valley). The citizens, McCarthy pointed out, were from the opposite ends of the spectrum. We had some trouble in a few situations, but there was a lot of cooperation as well. Not only were there the kooks, but there were also some young guys in their 20s and disheveled up until the Red Cross took over, took it upon themselves to help out with coffee and other support. They were really great. It was kind of gruesome, but there were some real good citizens out there who helped out a lot," Casanova said. The County (Sheriffs Office) treated us real good, McCarthy observed, and dispatch really did a VALUABLE EQUIPMENT . . . West Valley's Mobil Command Unit wos dispatched to the scene follow- ing the initial report of the incident. West Valley of- - -- -- long-haire- macasT had -- Check-Out- excellent adknew how to direct, Casanova said. The participation of all agencies involved was tremendous. happy forever r (in only 5 days) Above 95 Success Rate Private Treatment No One Hour Tacit Needle Special No Hypnosis Puce For Couples mm. & Cash Counters PLUS s Our Additional Equipment From ad- ministrators did a fine job. Once we got there and assessed the situation, we took action. When you think of it, it was really a small incident. What if it had been the big earthquake or one of the big jets? McCarthy said. Ive seen some ugly things in this line of work before, but I hope Ill never have to go through one like that again. to accommodate student housing ROCK SPRINGS ERNST STORE - CASH & CARRY Certified Checks o Money Orders o Cash Join. in- creases. Contrary to popular perceptions, he pointed out, large numbers of unoccupied elementary classrooms do not exist in schools east of the Jordan River. Special education programs and cooperative state-distriprograms are using dozens of classrooms. Each year were going to have to see additional schools go on the year-rounCall noted. pattern. There is no question that's the way were ci some who 8: 23 Hforw AM it 5 3U IPM mvm mu mm$ Hillside Shopping Center 2334 East 70th South Salt Lake City, Utah Ph. 943-476- 7 d Be proud of yourself and be a i 100s of Feet Shelving Junior High Students Continued from page 4 be able to find the dollars to construct a new junior high - and maybe even an elementary or two. We want to explore several options on this and get back to you. Several elementary schools, in addition to the six which have made presentations to the board since December, ONiel noted, will need to consider alternative housing modes IB mm fine job. We mss& fed d ministrator ficers communicated through the radio in the mobil unit prior to organization by the Sheriff, going. While the board postponed establishing a Thomas Jefferson junior high boundary, it did appoint Kearns junior high principal Annette Duzett as principal of the new facility, effective Feb. 2. 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