VIDEO/PHOTOS: A car went over the cliff, rolled and landed right-side up below Dixie Technical College at Tech Ridge above Monster Storage on Tuesday. St. George Police Officer Tiffany Mitchell told St. George News that a 41-year-old female driver was the only occupant in the Hyundai Tucson. Police would not speculate on the cause of the incident.
Mitchell confirmed, however, that an anonymous caller dialed 911 to report the incident at 12:35 p.m.
The St. George Fire Department responded and roped the female down the hill in a stokes basket. Then firefighters and other first responders worked together to bring her down the hillside to a waiting ambulance behind Monster Storage. “She is injured and en route to the hospital,” Mitchell said near the incident response scene at the bottom of the cliff near the intersection of 700 South and Bluff Street.
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The Utah Snow Survey measures and monitors snowpack across the state. The data about snowpack helps with conservation planning, water supply management, flood control, drought and avalanche predictions, climate modeling and recreation.
There are 138 Snow Telemetry, or SNOTEL, weather station sites to measure snowpack in Utah and 900 in the Intermountain West. Jordan Clayton is the snow survey supervisor for the Utah Snow Survey. He said while the sites are helpful for recreation purposes, their main purpose is to determine the snow water equivalent of the snowpack.
“The main reason why we put in these weather stations was for water supply forecasting," Clayton said. "We want to understand how much water we're going to get when all this snow melts.”
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Recently, the St. George Fire Department dispatched firefighters to Legacy Elementary School, not for an emergency, but to ignite a different kind of fire: a passion for reading. Legacy Elementary School was among the nearly 20 schools that participated in “Read with a Hero” day, an event where fire and police departments visited classrooms across the Washington County School District on March 8.
Vasu Mudliar, a 12-year firefighting veteran and founder of the event, split his unit into pairs and sent them to every floor of the school.
Like clockwork, a smiling firefighter would open a classroom door, ask if they might read to the class, and before the teacher could respond, excited cheering erupted out into the hallways. It was evident the firefighter had done this before.
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