EVERETT — Don’t panic when police cars, medic units and firetrucks rush to Mariner High School on Friday.
The responders will be participating in a drill to test school lockdown and evacuation procedures.
The drill begins at 10 a.m. Friday. The emergency responses may affect traffic flow in the area, including the possible closure of Fourth Avenue W., Snohomish County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said.
The sheriff’s office, Snohomish Fire District No. 1 personnel and law enforcement officers will be participating. The communications and actions later will be critiqued. The drill is a follow-up to one conducted in June 2001.
Questions relating to the exercise may be directed to Andy Muntz, school district spokesman, at 425-356-1219, or Jorgensen, at 425-388-3354.
Remains examined: The Snohomish County medical examiner on Tuesday examined skeletal remains found in a wooded area off I-5, but the person’s identity has not been released.
A cleanup crew discovered the remains west of the freeway near the 128th Street SW southbound exit.
The case remains under investigation.
Snohomish
No training: Helicopter training for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office and Snohomish County Search and Rescue that was scheduled this month at Lord’s Hill Regional Park has been suspended due to environmental concerns regarding sensitive plants in the area, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said. The helicopter crew will continue training in other remote areas.
Buses shot at: Two elementary school buses suffered broken windows after a pellet shooting.
Children from Seattle Hill Elementary and Totem Falls Elementary were on the buses Friday afternoon when the incidents occurred, but no one was hurt, said J. Marie Merrifield, district spokeswoman. Damage was estimated at $600.
Merrifield said letters about the incidents were sent home with students.
A window of bus No. 2 was broken about 3:20 p.m. while the bus was driving on 134th Street SE just before 62nd Drive SE, she said. On bus No. 29, a window was shot out on 134th Street near Evergreen Ridge.
Coupeville
Car crash: A 17-year-old Victoria, British Columbia, girl was listed in stable condition Tuesday at Whidbey General Hospital after a traffic crash on Highway 20 about 1 1/4 miles south of the city.
Miranda A. Pratt was a passenger in a 1996 Honda Prelude driven by Benjamin Butler, 19, of Anacortes when the crash occurred about 2:20 a.m. Butler also was taken to the hospital, where he was treated and released, a nursing supervisor said.
Arlington
Woman charged: An Arlington woman was charged Tuesday with vehicular homicide for allegedly driving drunk Jan. 8 and crashing her pickup truck into a station wagon, killing a church deacon.
At the time of the crash, Jacqueline Marie Willis, 55, had a level of alcohol in her blood that was more than 1 1/2times the legal limit, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Joan Cavagnaro said in court papers.
Tests showed the woman also had been taking an anti-depressant medication known to enhance the effect of alcohol, the prosecutor said.
James Cole Jr., 47, of Everett was killed in the wreck. His station wagon was struck head on when the truck Willis was driving along Highway 530 near Arlington passed another car on a curve, Cavagnaro alleged.
Court documents allege that when police arrived, Willis was seated in her truck, repeating, "Why did I do that? That was so stupid. Why did I do that?"
Cole was a deacon at the Forest Park Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Monroe
Wreck closes road: A semi tractor-trailer jackknifed just before 8 a.m. Monday and closed both lanes of Highway 522 near Monroe for about two hours, the Washington State Patrol reported.
The Monroe Fire Department transported a man who complained of neck and back pain to Valley General Hospital in Monroe, a fire spokesman said. The man apparently swerved his vehicle to miss the semi.
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