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Dramatic River Rescue in Logan & A Dangerous Game

January 3, 2012

A river rescue in Logan Canyon over the weekend has everyone talking. After a car plunged down a ten-foot embankment and into the river several people jumped into frigid water, turned the car right-side-up, and rescued three children. The rescue even involved one man shooting out a car window. In the first half of Tuesday's Access Utah, Tom Williams talks with two of the rescuers: father and son, Bruce and Chris Willden, and UHP Lt. Lee Perry.
    
In the second half, a dangerous way to get a high: the Choking Game. Three teenagers have died recently in Southern Utah and UPR correspondent Chris Holmes talks with Dr. Randy Jensen and with Codi Laws, who lost her son to the choking game.

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.