Early Morning
Everything seems like it is going to be a normal day for the Deputies that are working for the Utah County Sheriff’s office Eagle Mountain Division. There is reports of snow and the weather is cold. The average temperature in Eagle Mountain for January 30th 2014 was 32 Degrees Fahrenheit. The high for the day was 36 degrees, and there was snow falling off and on most of the day. Farther south in Juab County it snowed more during the day and was colder. The two patrol Deputies that were on duty were Deputy Max Morgan and Deputy Garrett Dutson, their Sergeant over their shift for this day was Sergeant Cory B Wride.
Deputy Max Morgan of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office gives Sergeant Cory Wride, his sergeant, a call on the phone. He asks him if he is going to go to lunch with them today. He usually calls Sergeant Wride in the mornings when Wride is coming out to the city to see if anything is needed and to see what is going on. Wride told Deputy Morgan that he would not be joining them for lunch that day.
8:10
Deputy Morgan gets the first call for the day1. He gets a call for a citizen assist. A mother is concerned about her Middle School aged child and his walk to school. She stated that her son had started to walk to school and she was worried about him because of the cold and she did not want him to get sick. Deputy Morgan started looking for her child. She called him a second time before he had located him and got upset with him because he had not found him yet, and then hung up on Deputy Morgan.
Eventually Deputy Morgan finds him and transports him in his vehicle to Frontier Middle School. When he calls her back to let her know, she states that she could not find her car keys and that is why he walked to school. He then informs the mother that if she cannot take her child to school then she needs to make other arrangements and that the Sheriff’s office would not be able to do this type of thing in the future. Angerly, she replies, “It’s not my fault!” as she hangs up on Deputy Morgan a second time.
8:58
The next call that came in was a traffic accident call. At 8:58 Deputy Dutson responds to a vehicle accident in the area of Wyatt Earp Ave, in Eagle Mountain.2 It was reported by dispatch that a Alpine School bus had slid off the road and had destroyed two mailboxes, and there were six special needs children on the bus at the time of the accident. When Deputy Dutson arrives at the scene, he is informed that the six students have already been removed from the bus and transported by another bus to school. The bus had minor damage on the rear fender. It appeared that the bus was turning around in the cul-a-sac and started to slide. The driver tried to stop the bus from sliding, but was unable to and the bus hit two mailboxes before it stopped sliding.
Deputy Dutson gives Sergeant Wride a call on his cell phone to discuss what needs to happen and to make sure that all the paperwork that he is doing is in order. Sergeant Wride drives out to the scene of the accident to give his input and the two of them talk for a few minutes. Sergeant Wride then drives off and Deputy Dutson finishes his paperwork and the yellow 1994 Bluebird school bus leaves the cul-a-sac.
10:30
Uncle Buck (James) is in the garage at the Grunwald home doing some welding on the trailer getting ready to help Meagan and Tori move to southern Utah. Tori, Meagan and Angel are in the house packing things up for the move.
- Morgan, Incident Report 14UC00929 ↩︎
- Dutson, Incident Report 14UC00933 ↩︎
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