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"The scene is still in the assessment phase," said Maj. Laurie A. Arellano, an Air Force spokeswoman. "It's still on its side in the ditch."
 
Arellano said the wreck would stay there for a least a few more days.
 
"It has to be 100 percent stable for movement. It's not a quick process — we have to make sure everything is stable first," Arellano said.
 
The truck was traveling from Minot Air Force Base to a launch facility in northwestern North Dakota when it crashed on the gravel road Thursday morning between Parshall and Makoti, about 70 miles from the air base. Two airmen in the vehicle were not seriously injured, the Air Force said.
 
Zacher said residents of Parshall, a town of about 1,000 people, are used to missiles being transported in the area, and they trust the Air Force.
 
"If there is a problem, they will take care of it," she said. "They do a very good job."
 
In Makoti, a farming community of about 145 people, Darwin Quandt said he wasn't worried.
 
"They're moving them things around all the time, so we're used to it," Quandt said.
 
"As long as it ain't going off, we're OK," he said. "And if it did, it wouldn't matter anyway."
 
A 12-year-old girl fell into a chimney on the roof of her apartment building, plummeted 14 stories down the flue and landed almost unscathed in a pile of furnace soot.
 
Grace Bergere, a young rock drummer, remained hospitalized Saturday for treatment of an injured hip.
 
The 2-foot-deep pile of ash and dust may have saved her life, cushioning her fall when she crashed into a basement furnace, fire officials said.
 
Authorities said Grace was showing a cousin, visiting from California, the spectacular view of the city from the top of her family's West Village apartment building, which has a rooftop deck overlooking the Hudson River.
 
To get to the highest point Thursday night, she climbed up a 25-foot ladder alongside the big brick chimney. When she reached the top, she fell into the gaping mouth of the chimney and plunged down the narrow flue to the basement.
 
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