When the Spanish Fork River ran over its banks earlier this week, it could have been really bad, particularly for one Utah County homeowner. Instead, dozens of neighbors stepped in at a critical moment to hold the waters at bay.
"It was just amazing," a grateful Dave Hansen said in an interview with KSL-TV Wednesday as he stood in his backyard surrounded by a barrier wall made of dirt, sandbags and bales of hay. "It's just an awesome community."
"What we didn't realize is it was just more than we could handle," Hansen said. " came around what we had built." "Yeah, obviously it could have wrecked personal property, could have wrecked part of the home if it would have got to that point," Fackrell said. "The water was right up to the owner's retention wall. They came out. They used their own equipment, their own manpower."Fackrell said the river in the area peaked on Tuesday at around 2,000 cubic feet per second — four to five times the typical volume seen there.
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