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Denton Record-Chronicle
NATIONAL
Saturday, April 12, 2014
5A
Jeremy Lockett/AP
Massive flames engulf a tractor-trailer and a tour bus just after they collide on Interstate 5 on
Thursday near Orland, Calif.
Dreams dashed in fatal
college tour bus crash
By Fenit Nirappil and
Martha Mendoza
Associated Press
ORLAND, Calif. — It was a
busload of opportunity: young,
low-income, motivated stu-
dents, destined to become the
first in their families to go to col-
lege, journeying from the con-
crete sprawl of Los Angeles to a
remote redwood campus 650
miles north.
Those dreams shattered for
some Thursday in an explosive
freeway collision that left 10
dead — students, chaperones
and both drivers — and dozens
hospitalized.
Desperate families awaited
word about loved ones Friday,
while investigators tried to fig-
ure out why a southbound Fed-
Ex big rig swerved across the
grassy divide of California’s key
artery before sideswiping a car
and slamming into the tour bus,
which burst into a furious blaze.
The Serrato family, whose
identical twin 17-year-old
daughters set off on the adven-
ture on separate buses Thurs-
day, had a panicked, sleepless
night. Marisol made it to their
destination, Humboldt State
University, but there was no
word from Marisa, who had
been aboard the now-gutted
bus.
Friday morning when a sher-
iff’s deputy asked for Marisa’s
dental records, a grim request
made to several families, 23-
year-old brother Miguel Serrato
said his family was “getting a lit-
tle bit scared.” His mother
booked a flight north.
Humboldt alumni Michael
Myvett, 29, and his fiancee,
Mathison Haywood, who were
chaperoning, also were killed.
Myvett was a therapist at an au-
tism treatment center.
“He just died,” his grand-
mother Debra Loyd said, her
voice breaking with emotion in
the early afternoon Friday.
“They have already confirmed
it.”
Myvett’s manager Kyle Farris
said he was “extraordinary” and
that he connected with their
children “on a level few others
could, and he contributed to
their wellbeing in such a positive
and profound way.”
“He will be greatly missed,”
Farris said.
A Facebook photo shows
Haywood flashing a shining dia-
mond engagement ring on her
finger and kissing Myvett in De-
cember near the Louvre Muse-
um in Paris.
The bus was among three
Humboldt had chartered as part
of its two-day Preview Plus pro-
gram to bring prospective stu-
dents to tour the Areata campus,
according to university officials.
Before launching the event Fri-
day, university Vice President
Peg Blake’s voice broke as she
asked a crowded theater for a
moment of silence in honor of
everyone affected by the acci-
dent.
Most survivors were injured,
some with critical bums or bro-
ken limbs. Those who made it
out said they scrambled through
a kicked-out window.
One man, apparently an ad-
missions counselor, was in
flames and later died.
Those who could sprinted,
others staggered, in a desperate
dash to the opposite side of In-
terstate 5 before the vehicle ex-
ploded.
“We knew we were in major
trouble,” said Steven Clavijo, a
high school senior from Santa
Clarita, who was trying to nap
when he felt the bus shake be-
fore a loud boom.
After he escaped, two more
explosions followed. Clavijo and
other survivors watched help-
lessly, knowing their peers were
trapped in the inferno.
Explosions of orange flames
engulfed both vehicles, and
clouds of black smoke billowed
into the sky until firefighters
doused the fire, leaving behind
scorched black hulks of metal.
Bodies were draped in blankets
inside the burned-out bus.
“I can only imagine the ex-
citement of these high school
students as they were on their
way to visit a college campus,
and the pride of the adults who
were accompanying them,” said
U.S. Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan in a statement.
Raleigh, N.C.
N.C. inmate charged in
kidnapping of man
A North Carolina inmate de-
scribed as a high-ranking mem-
ber of the Bloods street gang fac-
es a federal kidnapping charge
after authorities say he used a
mobile phone to help orches-
trate the abduction of a prosecu-
tor’s father.
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
An arrest warrant was issued
Friday for Kelvin Melton, who is
serving a life sentence for order-
ing the shooting of a Raleigh
man in 2011.
Melton is accused in last Sat-
urday’s kidnapping of Frank Ar-
thur Janssen of Wake Forest.
Janssen, 63, was rescued
Wednesday by the FBI at an At-
lanta apartment.
Five others have also been ar-
rested and charged.
The case highlights the prob-
lem of inmates getting access to
smuggled smartphones that can
allow them to make calls, ex-
change email, browse the Inter-
net and maintain Facebook pro-
files. They can also direct crimi-
nal conspiracies, authorities say.
Melton, 49, had a mobile
phone in his cell.
— The Associated Press
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Ripples of Nevada
range showdown
spreading in West
By Ken Ritter
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Images of a
forced cattle roundup on a rural
Nevada range sent ripples
through the West on Friday,
prompting elected officials in
several states to weigh in, militia
members to mobilize and feder-
al land managers to reshape ele-
ments of the operation.
Bureau of Land Manage-
ment officials dismantled desig-
nated protest areas Thursday
and Nevada’s governor urged
calm as the fight over rancher
Cliven Bundy’s cattle widened
into a debate about states’ rights
and federal land-use policy.
The dispute that triggered
the roundup dates to 1993, when
the BLM cited concern for the
federally protected tortoise. The
agency later revoked Bundy’s
grazing rights.
Bundy claims ancestral
rights to graze his cattle on lands
his Mormon family settled in the
19th century. He stopped paying
grazing fees and disregarded
several court orders to remove
his animals. BLM officials say
Bundy now owes more than $1.1
million in unpaid grazing fees.
“I’m seeing a lot of passionate
Americans willing to stand up
for important rights,” said Neva-
da state Assemblywoman Mi-
chele Fiore.
Fiore, a Republican, said Fri-
day she has been making the 80-
mile drive from Las Vegas to a
growing tent city of militia
members, advocates and pro-
testers in dusty but scenic range-
land near Bundy’s ranch, just
east of the Virgin River. She said
she was horrified that BLM po-
lice used stun guns on one of
Bundy’s adult sons during a
Wednesday confrontation on a
state highway near the Bundy
melon farm in the Gold Butte
area.
Video of that confrontation
has spread on the Internet,
along with blog commentary
claiming excessive government
force and calls to arms from self-
described militia leaders. Some
have invoked references to
deadly confrontations with fed-
eral authorities, including a
siege of a ranch home in Ruby
Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, and the fi-
ery destruction of a religious
compound near Waco that
killed 76 people in 1993.
In Arizona, a congressman
said he and several state Repub-
lican lawmakers may travel to
Bunkerville to protest what they
perceive as government heavy-
handedness.
U.S. Rep. Bob Thorpe of
Flagstaff said he and state legis-
lators weren’t arguing whether
Bundy broke laws. Thorpe said
the Arizona lawmakers were up-
set the BLM initially restricted
protesters to so-called “free
speech zones.”
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