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I'll continue to post information and news from grads and friends, and also want to keep current with LE news and references.

My College phone and e-mail are pretty much out of service, so I'll be setting up yet another account , so we can stay in touch.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

LODD: Environmental, Fall

From WSMV, Nashville, Tenn. 

Deputy Dies After Fall Into 200-Foot Sinkhole

Overton County Deputy Working On Case When Incident Occurred 

Livingston, Tenn. -- An Overton County deputy was killed Tuesday morning when he fell into a 200-foot sinkhole at Standing Stone State Park, according to the local sheriff.

Overton County sheriff (sic) W. B. Melton said he had asked two of his deputies to check out the area for a case they were investigation.At about 11 a.m., Chad Pritchard, 25, fell into the hole, located near the community of Hilham, Tenn."There were two (park) rangers here and two deputies, and they came up and looked at this sinkhole. (Pritchard) said he wanted to shine his light (into the hole.) He took another step forward, slipped and went into the hole."Melton said the deputy had been employed with the department for about 2.5 months. It took rescue crews about four hours to recover Pritchard's body.Pritchard, who was recently married, had served in Iraq for two years and had just graduated from the police academy.

 

 

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  1. ZebulonApril 23, 2010 at 11:02 AM

    Scene safety has to play into every situation, i.e. understading that it would be good for you and/or the people around to have atleast semi-tech training, have outfitted the proper PPE before approach. How tragic.

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  2. ZebulonApril 23, 2010 at 11:09 AM

    This tragic situation truly reinforces the idea of scene safety; how it must be taken into consideration in all situations. For example ideally all personal, at such a scene, would have rope rescue / semi tech training and furthermore have the personal protective equipment dawned before approach.

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