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Memorial
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the Aggie spirit.
"Each of these stude;
etched a place in the landscap
of our hearts,” Josefy said. "11
memorial will be a placewht
we can realize just howprecic.
life is.”
The design chosen for tfe
Bonfire Memorial wasaninie
national competition that coj.
sisted of two stages andajur,
that decided which design wj
the best. The first stage,opens
to anyone 18 years of agt
resulted in four finalists. Stag
two included a jury of profe>
sionals in landscape arete
ture, architecture, fine art;
planning and engineering,®
well as selected representative
of the University whochosetk
best design.
The idea for the men®
came shortly after the 1999col
lapse, Rosser said.
“We knew it was the rigit
thing to do” he said. “Wenet;
to remember and memorials
these individuals”
A design by Overk
Partners, Inc. of San Antoni:
led by Bob Shemwell, Class;'
1982, was the firm chosen.
Josefy said the design
impressive and symbolic.
“Overland Partners reallype
a lot of thought into this,’'k
said. "It’s incredible.”
The memorial is not onh
for the 12 Aggies who diei
Rosser said. At the center o!
the ring will be 27 stone;
placed to recognize the 27 stu
dents who were injured in tk
collapse.
Vice President of
Administration Charles Sippia!
said the memorial is expected
to cost around $5 million. Tlte
memorial will not be fundedb;
the state, but rather from gener
al use fees or authorized
tuition.
Wildfires
Continued from page 1
The ... firefighters are the true
heroes. They’re risking their
lives in order to save people’s
lives,” Schwarzenegger said.
Across Southern California,
the sun glowed red and smoke
stung the eyes and lungs. Airport
baggage handlers wore masks
against the smoke and the ash
dropping across the landscape.
"My eyes are burning right
now something terrible,” said
74-year-old Maury Glantz in
San Diego, holding a towel over
his mouth and nose. “I have to
get out.”
Even the primates at the San
Diego Zoo went indoors to
escape the misery. “Their lungs
are built like ours so they can be
affected by the smoke,” said zoo
spokeswoman Yadira Galindo.
Many of those who died in
the wildfires ignored evacuation
orders and were caught by
flames because they waited until
the last minute to flee. Sheriff
Bill Kolender said.
“When you are asked to
leave, do it immediately,” he
said. “Do not wait.”
San Diego Fire Chief Jeff
Bowman said he was worried
that three fires that incinerated
585 homes in San Diego County
would merge into a super fire,
pushing already strained
resources to the breaking point.
“This morning, however, we
feel very good because the
weather has worked with us and
not against us,” he said.
A 90,000-acre wildfire that
straddles the Los Angeles-
Ventura county line began mov
ing slowly toward million-dollar
mansions in a gated community
in Los Angeles. California
Department of Forestry
Battalion Chief Thomas Foley
said that in a “worst-case sce
nario,” the blaze could spread
all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Some hotspots flared
Monday, but authorities said the
winds that had driven the flames
erratically for days appeared to
be easing.
Los Angeles Fire Chief
William Bamattre said firefighters
were seizing the opportunity to
finally go on the attack after being
on the defensive for days.
However, gusts of up to 45
mph were still possible in
canyons, and homes throughout
the region remained in danger
because of high temperatures,
low humidity and millions of
dead trees from an infestation of
bark beetles.
A state of emergency was
declared in the four stricken
counties, where the fires had
laid waste to entire blocks of
homes, closed major highways,
shuttered schools, disrupted air
travel nationwide and sent peo
ple running for their lives.
People were urged to stay
indoors because of the smoky
air, and hospitals treated a num
ber of people who complained
of breathing trouble.
“You could almost smell the
smoke and you could almost
taste fire,” said Leilani Baker,
46, of San Diego. She was sit
ting at a bus stop, her shoulders
covered with ash.
Nine people were killed by
the so-called Cedar Fire,
California’s largest blaze at
150,000 acres. The fire was
ignited Saturday near the moun
tain town of Julian when a lost
hunter set off a signal fire,
authorities said. The hunter may
face charges.
In San Bernardino County, a
blaze called the Old Fire has
destroyed more than 450 homes.
On Monday, the flames jumped
a road and moved into the heav
ily forested small town of
Crestline.
A major fire burning closer to
Los Angeles is believed to have
been started by arsonists.
“Those who start these fires
are no better than domestic ter
rorists and should be dealt with
as such,” said Los Angeles
County District Attorney Steve
Cooley.
The arsonists “have no idea
how many lives they’ve ruined,”
said Trisha Mitchell, standing
amid the debris that was once
her childhood home in San
Bernardino.
Days after running for her
life from a fire that ripped
through her San Bernardino
neighborhood, Pati Wecker
returned home in the Del Rosa
area to find the only thing left
standing of her house was an
archway.
Across the street, a park with
green grass and trees was
untouched.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Soyuz space capsule
lands in Kazakhstan
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP)
— A Soyuz space capsule car
rying an American, a Russian
and a Spaniard landed safelj
Tuesday in the wide-open
steppes of Kazakhstan
Russian Mission Control said.
The 3.5-hour trip descent to
Earth was only the seconc
time that a U.S. astronaut has
come home in a Russian crafi
and landed on foreign soil
Since the disintegration of the
space shuttle Columbia in
February put NASA manned
space flights on hold, the
Russian Soyuz capsules have
been the linchpin of the space
station program.
Officials at Mission Control
outside Moscow and others
waiting in Kazakhstan for the
landing were pleased that the
wild ride of the last Soyus
descent in May, which endec
with the American and Russian
crew going some 250 miles off-
course due to a compute'
error, was avoided.
The three on Tuesdays
homeward-bound trip were
American Ed Lu and Russiar
Yuri Malenchenko, whoflewto
the space station nearly six
months ago in the same
Soyuz, and Spaniard Pedro
Duque, who arrived at the sta
tion eight days ago on a differ
ent capsule.
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