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To: Lane3 who wrote (97318)	1/28/2005 8:50:19 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793755

They should charge her with two counts of stupidity, one for driving into the wash and the other for refusing help. The second is even more stupid than the first. Motorist who refused rescue fearing arrest - is arrested By Becky Pallack ARIZONA DAILY STAR A woman whose SUV stalled in a flooded wash Thursday resisted initial rescue efforts because she worried about being arrested, officials said. It was very "out of the ordinary," said Rick Flores, battalion chief for Rural/Metro Fire Department, of the effort to pull the woman and her two children from the vehicle stuck in the Cañada del Oro Wash at North Overton Road. The agency's swift-water team made its way to the GMC Yukon then stood in the water and negotiated with Kristina Sullivan Repasch for 15 minutes before she agreed to leave the vehicle. She kept saying she didn't want to be arrested and she didn't want her kids to be taken from her, Flores said. She repeatedly asked rescuers to leave, rolled up the windows and locked the doors to keep them away. Meanwhile, a rescue crew in a helicopter was watching for any debris upstream that could wash down and cause more problems, Flores said. Once Repasch agreed to be removed from the vehicle, rescuers carried the children - ages 14 and 11 - to safety. They used a raft to rescue Repasch because she is paraplegic, Flores said. Repasch, 37, was taken to a hospital then booked into the Pima County jail later Thursday. She was charged with two counts of child abuse, reckless driving and failure to obey a traffic device. Under Arizona's "Stupid Motorist Law," a driver who removes or ignores barricades at a flooded wash could face a minimum $2,000 fine. Agencies can also seek fines for each firefighter and piece of rescue equipment used at the scene. More than 20 people from Rural/Metro, the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the state Department of Public Safety helped at the scene. ? Contact reporter Becky Pallack at 629-9412 or bpallack@azstarnet.com.