August
17 - 18, 2002 - 6:00am to 6:00am - Our team was at the third annual Mississippi
Valley 24 Hour Challenge in New Baden, IL. It was a 24 hour long bike
race for 50 riders along mainly farm roads. There was a 52 mile day loop
and a 12 mile night loop. Our team provided communications along the routes,
drove the routes looking for riders that needed help, and sat at busy
intersections at night to give warning to cars that bike riders were on
the road. There was an incident at 2am concerning local kids that purposely
ran out onto a road in front of a rider, causing him to crash. Unit 220
and 77 called the county police and they sent a deputy over to the kid's
house.
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