The Battalion TATE Monday • July an Fire down below :———— -Jt mtm m atm ■ ■ riF^ars:—- *vT? x fog. 4? At- MAH HKW CRAWLEY/The B,\rrAUOh Lockhart, Texas firefighter Cary Roccafort, and his son and Lockhart Fire Department mascot Cory, age 7, get a sky-high view of the Texas A&M campus from a 100-foot ladder truck on display at TEEX’s 69th Annual Municipal Fire Training School at Reed Arena on Sunday. The week-long fire school is expected to draw over 2,000 students from all of the nation’s states and several foreign countries to the A&M campus to learn a variety of firefighting and rescue skills. No evidence plac^ former cadet at ci scene, attorney Tm scared, but I need to risk my life.’ One illegal immigrant makes treacherous journey despite knowledge of others’ deaths FALFURRIAS (AP) — It took 15 days for Juan Martinez, a father of four, to make it to South Texas from his home in central Mexico. Carrying only a 2-liter bottle of water that he refilled from yard sprinklers, the illegal immigrant plodded in scorching heat through thorny brushland and rocks. Finally his water ran out. Afraid he would die in the desert, Martinez sought help at a ranch, where security officers called the U.S. Border Patrol and he was captured. On Sunday, as Martinez awaited depor tation at the Falfurrias Border Patrol check point 80 miles north of the border, he vowed to rest up for a few weeks at home and try all over again — maybe with a bigger bottle of water. He was unfazed by the knowledge that 43 illegal immigrants have died on the same journey from heat exhaustion, dehydration and other heat-related causes. A 13-year-old boy found dead Saturday was expected to raise the toll. “"Knowing that, I still risked it," Martinez, who had hoped to find work fishing or work ing on a ranch, said. "Tm scared, but 1 need to risk my life." The area around the Falfurrias border checkpoint on state Highway 281 is a combi nation of shaded pastures and wild country. Part of the storied King Ranch is here, along with other sprawling spreads. In the wild brushland, bushes taller than an average person provide plenty of cover for immigrants who are dropped off by smugglers in Brooks and Kenedy counties. They then try to navigate the terrain to make it to a rendezvous spot north of the checkpoints. There are some well-marked sand paths used by immigrants, evidenced by footprints in the soft soil, discarded water jugs and shirts and sweaters left on nearby bushes. But since those same paths are watched by the Border Patrol, some immigrants head out into the thick tangle of cactus and mesquite. Some are guided by signs marking oil and gas pipelines. At night, the twinkling lights of distant microwave towers beckon. But many get lost. "They don’t know the terrain," Francisco Z. Camacho, supervisor at the Falfurrias bor der patrol station, said. "They get dropped off at night. They walk all night. Suddenly it's daylight, the sun comes up, they get de hydrated and sick." On Saturday, Camacho said, agents found a 13-year-old boy who died as he and his old er cousins tried to walk north. The two old er men were deported to Mexico after they were caught. "It's just the same old need to get through," Camacho said. NEW BRAUNFELS (AP) For mer Naval Academy midship man Diane Zamora tried to blame her ex-fiance, David Gra ham, a former Air Force Acade my cadet, for the murder of Adrianne Jones. That failed. Zamora, convict ed of capital murder in Febru ary, is now serving life in prison for the shooting and bludgeon ing death of Jones in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie in De cember 1995. Now, he's pointing the finger at her, accusing Zamora of being intensely jealous of Jones as a ro mantic rival for his affections. After the first week of testi mony, Graham attorney Dan Cogdell and a court analyst said Graham's case remains intact. "Up to this point, there is no concrete evidence that David Graham was at the murder scene," Cogdell said. Bill Lane, a Fort Worth attor ney who has provided com mentary on both Graham's trial and Miss Zamora's trial, agrees. "I think it's a draw after week one," Lane said. "And that's not good for the state. They were never behind in the Zamora trial." But Lane was quick to point out that the state this week was likely to introduce the confes sions of both Graham and Zamora to the killing of Jones. The state also was likely to introduce more forensic evi dence that may link Graham to the crime. Cogdell has said he will prove that Graham wasn't at the murder scene and that Zamora alone plotted and car ried out the murder. Prosecutors conti Graham shot Jonesat urging. Cogdell has yet it the whereabouts of^ the night of the murdei he has yet to decideiij Graham on the stand. He said he planstol jurors that Grahamca to the crime because!^ shiped" Zamora andf had agreed to help aw crime if Zamora caught. But if Graham was to cover up the murdi n't he be just as will for her? "There's no questi a double-edged swd you are talking ahouti deep, as to whetherls kill for her or coverup Cogdell said. Cogdell said he has sought a bench warn the judge in the case Zamora testify oncethi begins presentingevid "I will call hertoth Cogdell said. Lane said Grahanu been hurt by testimon lice found the allegei weapon, a 9 millimetei Graham's residence. 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