- Rocky Mountain Power will dismantle 41 towers after a teen’s tragic death.
- Garrett Sears died in Nov. after climbing a transmission tower in Fruit Heights.
- The Sears family advocated for changes citing outdated, accessible designs and past incidents.
FRUIT HEIGHTS — Nine months after a 16-year-old boy was electrocuted and fell from a transmission tower in Davis County, Rocky Mountain Power has agreed to dismantle dozens of towers along the Wasatch Front following advocacy from the teen’s family.
Garrett Sears died in November after falling from a transmission tower above a Fruit Heights neighborhood, where he was climbing with friends. His parents, Jen and Phil Sears, say the area was dark and the teens were unable to see warning signs, a nearby memorial for another teen who died climbing the tower or the power lines overhead.
“They went down to the caves,” Phil Sears said. “They were walking along this very sidewalk, and the boys saw this tower that was here and thought it was abandoned.”…