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No portion may be reproduced in any form without written consent of the managing editor or publisher. The Park Record (USPS 378-730) (ISSN 0745-9483) is published twice weekly by Wasatch Mountain News Media Co., 1670 Bonanza Drive, Park City, UT 84060. Periodicals postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, 84199-9655 and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Park Record, P.O. Box 3688, Park City, UT84060. Entered as second-class matter, May 25, 1977, at the Post Office in Park City, Utah, 84060 under the Act of March 3, 1897. Subscription rates are: $56 within Summit county, $80 outside of Summit County, Utah. Subscriptions are transferable: $5 cancellation fee. Phone: 435–649–9014 Continued from A-1 A plan for the Wasatch though the door is open for a transportation system linking base areas. A draft of the Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area act was released on Aug. 19, and members of the Central Wasatch Commission are coming to Park City to hear public feedback this week. The public comment forum will be held from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday in the Park City High School cafeteria. The most direct impact in Summit County is the inclusion of nearly 1,000 acres within county borders in the proposed conservation and recreation area, including the backcountry skiing spot known as the Monitors. That would prevent ski area expansion into the area, said Park City Mayor Andy Beerman, who serves on the Central Wasatch Commission. Summit County Councilor Chris Robinson is also a member of the commission. For the most part, this bill does not address the other major focus of the commission — finding regional transportation solutions — as that process does not require federal action. The push to protect the Wasatch Range was renewed after the 2011 effort to sell 30 acres of public land to private owners to create the so-called SkiLink between Solitude and Canyons mountain resorts. Out of that urgency came the Mountain Accord, and the Central Wasatch Commission, which wrote this bill, was formed to carry out the goals of that accord. “What came out of SkiLink was, we need to get our heads together locally and decide what we want, so it isn’t just responding to specific projects,” Becker said. A 2016 version of the land conservation bill served as the starting point for the current effort, Becker said, and the two share about 95 percent of the same material. Some of the changes in the new draft were included at the request of U.S. Reps. John Curtis and Ben McAdams, Continued from A-1 Officer saves life probably did save this individual’s life is something worth commendation,” Kirk said. The ambulance took the man to the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. Details about his condition were not available. The Police Department is considering Knechtel for an award for his response at the salon. Knechtel is also known in Park City as the police officer who organizes the agency’s Citizens Academy, a program designed to introduce the public to police work through classroom sessions, field trips and demonstrations. The Park Record was unable to contact Knechtel. The staff at the salon was working what was a typical Saturday when the person, who was not a customer, arrived. Brittnie Dayton, a Hair Solutions stylist, said the man walked in Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e 3092 So. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 888.445.RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm Becker said, largely to tweak the language to get it in shape to be presented to Congress. Other notable changes include more clearly defining which private lands would be included in the protections, establishing the White Pine Watershed Protection Area and how it would be managed, allowing the U.S. Forest Service to receive “split estates” in which one entity owns the land on the surface and another the land underground, and explicitly allowing for transportation improvements on the conservation land, including roadway improvements and mountain transportation systems. Becker said the overall purpose remains the same: To protect the Wasatch Range — front and back — while allowing for solutions to long-term issues that have plagued the area for years, like how to establish efficient transportation in the mountains. Beerman said the areas for proposed land exchanges have been more clearly defined to protect the rights of private landowners who don’t want to be included. The overarching strategy for the proposed land swaps is to take mountainside land in the Cottonwoods owned by Brighton, Solitude and Snowbird ski resorts and swap it with publicly owned land at their base areas, Becker explained. That would enable greater protections of the mountains themselves and prevent ski area growth while possibly allowing the resorts to expand their base areas. Additionally, the bill calls for the protection of nearly 30,000 acres in a newly formed conservation and recreation area, which would mean the vast majority of the Wasatch Range south of Interstate 80 and north of the Utah County line would be under some sort of protection. It also proposes expanding or creating three Wilderness Areas in Salt Lake County. The proposed protected areas total 38,625 acres. Solitude, Brighton and Snowbird have signaled their willingness for the land-swap idea, Becker said, but Alta Ski Area has vacillated on the issue and is now saying it is not interested. Public comment on the draft of the bill is open until Sept. 19, after which the commission will review the input at its October meeting, likely voting to move forward with the bill in November. To read a copy of the bill and see maps of the proposal, visit cwc.utah.gov. and asked the staff to call one of his friends. Dayton said he apologized for his behavior and told the people at the salon he was suffering a heart attack. He became emotional and laid on the floor in the front of the salon, she said. Someone at the salon called 911 on a cellphone, Dayton said. She said neither of the salon staffers working at the time are trained to perform CPR. She said Knechtel quickly arrived, checked the man’s pulse and started to administer CPR. “You just don’t know what’s going to happen. Are you watching someone die on the floor,” Dayton said, indicating the salon staffers took one young client to the back so the girl would not witness the life-saving work on the man. The Police Department is amid an annual CPR recertification for officers. Some of the officers on Thursday worked on the recertification. A police officer is the first to arrive at the scene in many cases, Kirk said, since the officers are on patrol while an ambulance normally must be dispatched from a station. “We might be responsible for saving that individual’s life because a few seconds can make the difference,” Kirk said. Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 7-10, 2019 Continued from A-1 Calm voice needed few days. “We literally see the worst of everything,” Butterfield said. “This isn’t a desk job, it’s chaos.” The Summit County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the dispatchers, has proposed restructuring the department to more closely resemble the way other first responder departments work. One of the biggest changes would be to create a career ladder. The opportunity for that kind of career advancement doesn’t currently exist. For instance, once Odenbach was promoted to supervisor about 10 years ago, there was nowhere else for her to go, no further promotion she could attain unless someone who’d been with the department for decades retired. She said she thought about becoming a sheriff’s deputy, something a few dispatchers have gone on to do. But ultimately she decided she liked what she was doing and stuck with it. Sheriff Justin Martinez said the office is fully staffed to cover courts, patrol duty and corrections, but dispatch has been a persistent challenge. “(The new structure is) not going to change how tough the job is, but it might make it more palatable to advance to supervisor role,” Martinez said. “Currently (they) have a really tough job with no future. We’re trying to make them family — their job is just as valuable.” If the County Council approves the restructuring, Odenbach would become the new director, replacing Lt. Nick Wilkinson, who has been moved to overseeing the Courts Division. The County Council heard a proposal from Wilkinson and Martinez Aug. 21, but did not vote on the plan, instead suggesting it go through the normal budgeting process. The change would initially yield a small savings by holding a position open, but would create new positions and the possibility for more upward mobility and would likely result in pay raises, increasing the division’s budget. Both the sheriff and the division’s commander have worked a dispatch console, Odenbach said, seeing firsthand the rigors of the job. The sheriff told the County Council a story that illustrated the challenge in retaining staff. “One of our (dispatchers), he took a phone call. The individual on the other line of the phone said, ‘Here’s my location, tell my family I love them,’ and all he heard is a pop. All he heard is a pop,” Martinez said. That dispatcher is still with the department, the sheriff said, but if that had happened to a newer dispatcher, they might not have been able to cope as well. The bad calls stick with dispatchers, they said. Odenbach said she dreams about the job sometimes, replaying calls that had bad outcomes, wondering if she could’ve done anything differently. Butterfield said they deal with the worst possible scenarios at work, and she joked that when her kids are getting a ride home from someone, she needs to know the make, model and color of the car and the driver’s full name and social security number. “I’m the most jaded mother in the world,” she said with a laugh. Butterfield recalls the day the Rockport Fire started in 2013. It eventually burned nearly 2,000 acres and claimed eight homes and scores of outbuildings, sheds and vehicles. She was one of two dispatchers on duty, and it seemed like every person driving on Interstate 80 called in to report it. “Within 20 minutes we had to evacuate,” Butterfield said, recalling 911 ringing nonstop for two hours. That’s on top of dispatching emergency personnel and coordinating hundreds of people in the fire suppression effort. She said they got through it by splitting duties between the fire and all the other calls, triaging calls in real time and putting their heads down and working through it. Afterward, she was tired but proud of the work they’d done. The sadness hit days later when a woman who was vacationing in Florida called in. She was crying, Butterfield said, watching her house burn down on live TV, and there was nothing they could do. The department does what it can to offer creature comforts for the dispatchers, and their work stations reflect it. They sit or stand behind a bank of seven monitors, with a desk that moves up and down, has extra lighting and has heating and cooling built in. Everyone has their favorite keyboard and chair, Odenbach said. There’s exercise equipment around the office like dumbbells and treadmills, and sometimes a dispatcher will set up a treadmill so they can walk while they’re working. There’s a relaxation room where dispatchers can go after a hard call. It can be plunged into darkness or lit with lamps and has a massage chair donated by the Park City Fire District emblazoned with a message thanking the dispatchers for all they do. C The job requires several certifications and an intensive, six-month training course, but Odenbach says it takes longer than that to become confident in the job, usually about a year. That’s on top of the six- to eightmonth waiting period while a candidate is vetted with polygraph tests, background checks and drug tests. Dispatchers also have successful calls, like locating a person who is missing or leading a caller through first aid that helps someone who had been choking. The industry standard is to answer 911 calls within 10 seconds, Odenbach said, but the Summit County crew averages three seconds. “They’re a competitive bunch,” she said. They take apparent pride in the work of the departments they support. Odenbach said the Search and Rescue division is one of the most accurate in the state. They’d only lost three people in the 35 years Lt. Alan Siddoway had been in charge, she said, and were planning a search for someone who’d been missing for three years. Odenbach and the other dispatchers could still recall with little hesitation the names and circumstances of the three missing people, years after the searches started. Both Odenbach and Butterfield said they enjoy the job and the fact that it lets them help people. It takes a certain kind of person to be a dispatcher, they said. Butterfield talks about some who’ve gotten so anxious coming into work it literally makes them sick. But every day is different, and both said they enjoy the adrenaline rush. “It’s a different world,” Odenbach said. H p |