Christie: 4th Of July Went Well Overall

Christie Wood: Police and Fire stayed busy last night with alcohol fueled fights, drugs, DUI, accidents, medical issues etc. I worked at the Police and Fire Park building from noon until midnight. We had 2 missing children reported that we found fairly quickly, and 6 found children brought to the building throughout the night by strangers. Almost all of them were three years old, one was two. We managed to reunite all of them with their parents within 15 to 20 minutes. The numbers of found/missing children were down this year from an all time high 2 years ago of 21. Approx. 1 minute before the fireworks show ended we got word of a small plane crashing on I-90 at milepost 11. (I do not have a lot of details, CDA Fire, KCSD and ISP responded). If the timing would have been just 10 minutes later the freeway would have been packed with cars and we would have had a very different turn of events. Overall the day and evening went well. The fire works were enjoyed by thousands of people.