MICHAEL OWEN CONLEY
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 49-E: 17
Department: Estes Park, Colorado, P.D.
End of Watch: July 31, 1976
Cause: DROW
Age: 30
Years of Service: 1
Description: Police Officer Conley and Sergeant Hugh Purdy drowned while saving residents during the Big Thompson Canyon Flood. Officer Conley was off-duty but quickly recognized the danger and took action. Officer Conley notified over 100 people of the oncoming wall of water rushing through the canyon. Officer Conley climbed a telephone pole in an attempt to save himself but was swept away. Over 140 people died in this incident, which was Colorado's worst natural disaster.
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