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The Everett Fall Coin & Stamp Show is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Sunday at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, 12810 35th Ave. SE, Everett. Free.
Check out a 32-foot gray whale made of plastic bags at Imagine Children’s Museum, 1502 Wall Street, Everett. See how recycling works from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today. Museum admission is $9.80.
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Get photos of your pets with Santa from 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. today at Skagit Farmers Country Store, 8815 272nd St. NW, Stanwood. Cost is $20 for a CD with four different pictures.
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Radio recordings document decisions By Rikki King, Scott North and Eric Stevick
The decision for firefighters: Wait close to 20 minutes for a helicopter, or drive with lights and sirens to an Everett hospital and try to get them help in half that time. Within 10 minutes of the first
Herald Writers
MARYSVILLE — Four teens were in critical condition, and two already were dead.
911 call reporting shootings at Marysville Pilchuck High School, fire battalion chief Scott Goodale had crews set up a landing zone for medical helicopters on the school’s ball fields. By radio to the dispatch center,
he asked for two helicopters. Meanwhile, aid cars from all over Snohomish County were pulling up to assist. The recordings of firefighters’ emergency radio traffic from Oct. 24 were released Friday
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Tomahawks cruise into state quarterfinals
under state public records laws. Most of the 911 calls and the police radio traffic from those first few hours have already been made public. See RADIO, Page A2
Panicked parents called 911 Herald staff
nuisances and crime. The result is a list of strategies outlining more than 60 specific actions the task force is recommending the city and local social services organizations pursue in the coming years.
MARYSVILLE — Parents were clearly frustrated by the limited information they were able to receive in the hour following the Oct. 24 fatal shootings at Marysville Pilchuck High School. Calls poured in to a dispatch center from worried parents and others trying to get information, or verification of what they heard was happening. Recordings of those 911 phone calls were released Friday by SNOPAC, the dispatch center that serves much of Snohomish County. One 911 dispatcher, calling a parent back about an hour after the shooting to tell him where he could find his daughter, took the brunt of his anger. He’d already heard from his daughter and was following events as students and others reported on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere about what they’d seen or heard. “The names of the shooters are on social media,” said the clearly perturbed father. “Everybody knows what’s going on based on social media. So that’s where I have to go for my information.” While many details which initially spread via social media turned out to be untrue — Jaylen Fryberg, 15, was the lone shooter — word of how students were being led out of the school and where parents could get them were accurate. The nature of the event, as it was unfolding, seemed to put parents and dispatchers at odds with each other. Parents were seeking any news that would let them know if their children were safe; dispatchers were following their rules, which early on prevented them from even confirming some of the basics of the situation. One exchange, about 20 minutes after the shootings were first reported, was typical.
See STREETS, Page A6
See PARENTS, Page A2
MARK MULLIGAN / THE HERALD
On a freezing Friday night at Marysville’s Quil Ceda Stadium, Marysville Pilchuck High School juniors Sjersten Gunn (left) and Kylie Lopez cheer on their Tomahawks during the team’s 49-14 win over Mountlake Terrace.
Everett streets task force wraps up work Herald Writer
the buzz
EVERETT — The Everett Community Streets Initiative task force held its final meeting Thursday, finishing up a draft report that will go to the city council later this year.
Amid the final tweaks and the general self-congratulatory atmosphere for a job well done, there was an acknowledgement that the hard part was yet to come. “I think there’s a moment in time in our community when he have an opportunity to look
Click sans Clack Maybe Dear Abby and Tom can team up now: “Car Talk” co-host Tom Magliozzi won’t be writing his weekly newspaper column from the grave after all. The column’s syndicate initially said that both Tom’s and his brother Ray’s name would remain on the byline following Tom’s death on Nov. 3. But some newspaper
editors complained about the appearance of using the late brother’s name (Page D4). Just guessing, but we think the ends of a lot of newspaper editors’ dipsticks are about to fall off. Make them an offer they can’t refuse: A New York City house featured in the 1972 mob classic, “The Godfather,” is up for sale for
at solutions on a much greater scale than we ever have before,” Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson said. Stephanson convened the task force to develop strategies to deal with the city’s chronic problems with homelessness, poverty, mental illness, street
$2.89 million. The current owner has decorated the house to resemble the interior as shown in the movie (Page A7). Our advice if you tour the kitchen and they’ve left out treats: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. Le meow: French police are continuing their search for a wild cat in the town of Montrevrain, but authorities
have determined the cat is not, as was thought earlier, a tiger. It could be a lynx, once common in France but now very rare because of hunting (Page A7). There hasn’t been this much excitement and confusion over a feline in France since a black cat walked under a white paint brush and inflamed the passions of Pepe Le Pew.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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