For being filled mostly with teens, the grandstands at the Morgan County Fairgrounds were noticeably quiet and without the sounds of chatter or fidgeting Wednesday morning.
Over the course of about 40 minutes that morning, students from most of the high schools in Morgan County got to see either in person or by streaming video exactly what is involved in the emergency response to a deadly car accident.
There were loud sirens blaring from ambulances and firetrucks, the squawking of public safety radios and the voice of a Colorado State Patrol trooper describing what was happening over the loudspeakers.
“This accident was serious,” Trooper Gary Cutler said into the microphone. “Some people aren’t going to walk away from it.”
But all during the action down on the ground, there was not much talking going on up in the audience.
That lack of chatter or nervous discussion up in the grandstands was something that caught the attention of CSP Sgt. Burl Giffin.
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