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August 17, 2017

Call boxes planned for Oregon bridge

NORTH BEND, Ore. (AP) — Suicide call boxes have arrived in Coos County after a year in which a record number of people tried to jump from the McCullough Bridge.

The World newspaper reports the two call boxes are in storage until the Oregon Department of Transportation and others decide how they should be installed. The boxes can't be permanently fixed to the bridge because it is a historic landmark.


 
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