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How this ‘earthquake nut’ prompted one Utah school district to make all of its buildings safer

Father of five daughters worried about them attending classes in the old East High building.

(Lynn R. Johnson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Standing on the roof of the new East High School, then-principal Kay Peterson, framed in the window on left, watches as crews demolish the west wall of the old school in August 1996. The school was one of the first in Salt Lake City School District to be rebuilt to be seismically safe.