The Carbon County Search and Rescue held their Demolition Derby in conjunction with the Carbon County Fair this past weekend. The turnout of drivers and spectators was remarkable, which allowed for a considerable amount of proceeds raised to go towards the team’s expenses for the year.

“I just want to say thanks to all the people that came out and supported the Search and Rescue. We had a great crowd out there, we had a lot of drivers that built cars to come out, a lot of sponsors, I can’t name off all the sponsors there were so many of them, but a lot of sponsors and I think we did very well with our derby this year,” stated Carbon County Sheriff Jeff Wood. There were originally 43 cars that had entered but a few either had mechanical issues or just weren’t able to make it. By the time the derby started there were 36 cars ready to compete.

A lot of planning went into the event by the Search and Rescue team from advertising and personally sending invitations to drivers to attend this year. “You know a tribute to those drivers, there’s a lot of work that goes into these cars and its time consuming, they get competitive and happy they were there. Hopefully next year we can have a few more than that but the show went well and smooth and there wasn’t a lot of down time in between heats,” said Wood. Intermission events consisted of different silly contests with selected members of the audience competing against one another, such as a frozen t-shirt contest; swag was also thrown out to spectators sitting in the stands from various sponsors, the derby was definitely a great ending to the county fair.

With September just right around the corner the weather in the area starts to make some dramatic shifts and residents have seen firsthand over the last few years in Spring Glen, Helper and Carbonville the effects it had. “The monsoon storms are going to come and we’re going to have flooding issues and I just want people to start getting prepared now, just in case. It’s better to be prepared than not need it, than need it and not have it,” stated Wood. “Make sure your ditches are clean. Make sure that’s all ready to go and if you think you need sandbags, we have them ready to go. So they are out at the Road Shop, but if you wait till the storm hits and try to get sand bags and try to protect your property it’s too late.” Residents of Helper City may obtain sand bags at the local fire station.

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