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What a strange absurd way to end it all! And two were killed trying to rescue someone... No good deed goes unpunished!<br><br>It seems irrigation pumps should be constructed with redundant fail safes to sense shorts and shut down power if one occurs.<br>
<br><a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3-electrocuted-in-idaho-ditch%3B-1-tried-to-save-dog">http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3-electrocuted-in-idaho-ditch%3B-1-tried-to-save-dog</a><br><br>Updated Aug 31, 2012 3:42 PM ET</div>
</div><h3>BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP)</h3>
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An assistant track and field coach at Idaho State University was one of
three people who were electrocuted in an irrigation ditch — the coach
after apparently trying to rescue a dog and two others who went into the
water in an attempt to rescue her.</p><p>
Bingham County officials found the bodies Thursday about three miles northwest of Blackfoot.</p>
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Jacquelyn R. Paulson, 31, of Blackfoot, was reported missing at about
9:30 p.m. when she didn't return from a search for the family dog,
sheriff's Capt. Mark Crowley said.</p>
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Two Blackfoot men — Michael Lance Hicks, 41, and Preston Keith Tarpley,
49 — apparently went in the water to rescue Paulson and also were
electrocuted.</p>
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An irrigation pump in the area had shorted out and was sending a current through the water, Crowley said.</p>
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Idaho Power Co. shut off the power in the area so rescuers could recover the bodies.</p>
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Paulson was going into her ninth season an assistant track and field
coach at Idaho State. She was a two-time NCAA All-American in the
heptathlon at ISU and competed in the event in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic
Trials, finishing eighth in 2008. She also competed internationally.</p>
"She was the pride of our program," said ISU head track and field coach
Dave Nielsen. "She was like a daughter to me. This is so untimely and
tragic that I just don't know what else to say."<br>------------------------------------------<br>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br>