In phase three, the helicopter crew radioed a commander to say that at least six armed men had entered a partially constructed building in a dense urban area.
The area was under a dense fog advisory at the time of the pileup, said Laura Belanger, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City.
The school failed to ensure that the students take precautions against ticks and allowed them to walk through dense woods known to be a risk area for tick-borne encephalitis and other tick- and insect-transmitted illnesses, Munn's attorneys said.