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AMBER alert debuts with successful rescue of kidnapped girls.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Roy Suruki thought he'd come upon a bad accident on his Thursday morning commute from San Mateo to Milpitas, but it wasn't crumpled cars slowing his drive to a crawl through Palo Alto.
Instead, Suruki and thousands of drivers throughout the state found themselves braking and squinting to read flashing alerts they had never seen before on overhead electronic freeway signs: AMBER ALERT . . . CHILD ABDUCTION . . . WHI FORD BRONCO . . . LIC: 1AIZ962.
"I thought traffic was flowing pretty good and then it just stopped," said Suruki, 30. "Everyone was pretty much just slowing down and reading it. Something about an Amber missing. It flashed so fast you never got to catch the license plate number."
What Suruki was seeing was part of California's first statewide child-abduction alert flashing on freeway signs from San Diego to Eureka. Within 12 hours, police had caught and killed a kidnapper and saved two teenage girls.
It was quite a debut for the state's new AMBER Alert warning system ...
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