Salt Lake County sheriff remembers the fallen
There was no 21-gun salute or wreath service Tuesday to remember the 13 members of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office who have died in the line of duty over the years. Mother Nature wouldn’t allow it.
But the rain didn’t keep Sgt. Manfred Lassig from reading each name aloud to the audience assembled inside the sheriff’s office at the annual memorial service.
The reading began with the name of deputy Rodney Badger, who died in April 1853, and ended with crossing guard Henry Tesch, killed in 1994.
Sheriff Jim Winder also dedicated the program to the memory of Millard County sheriff’s Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop earlier this year. Winder then tipped his hat to Sevier County sheriff’s Sgt. Franco Aguilar, who was hit and knocked off a bridge in a car crash in April while helping a stranded motorist. Aguilar died in the incident.
Winder called the past few months in law enforcement “extremely difficult.”
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Wow – less than one death every four years. They are a good department. I used to live there. It is pretty amazing for all the talk of danger, the numbers paint a different picture. This is a far lower rate than many other jobs, such as ski patrol, ironworkers and firefighters.