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• Neighbor Tammy Klein says the Vollmers were the first people she met when she moved. She was hauling her belongings off the moving truck when the Vollmers swept her away to a Fourth of July party.
• "Nicest neighbors I've ever met," Klein told the Argus Leader.
• Klein described the neighborhood as a "tight-knit community." She said the Vollmer's surviving daughter baby-sat for her before going off to college.
• "It breaks my heart to know that she's alone," Klein said.
• Alyssa and Caleb Vollmer were students at Sioux Falls Christian Schools, where students, faculty and parents gathered Sunday afternoon to mourn "lost classmates and lost friends," Superintendent Jay Woudstra said.
• Woudstra tells KELO-TV the parents were "salt of the earth."
• Alyssa Vollmer was a basketball player at Sioux Falls Christian Schools, and officials have rescheduled the Region 3A Championship game from Thursday to Saturday because of a scheduled prayer service Thursday and funeral set for Friday, KJAM reported.
• Authorities said the victims were wearing seat belts and alcohol wasn't a factor. The wreck's cause is under investigation.
• One of the first responders at the scene, Crooks Fire Chief Mike Harstad, said it's impossible to prepare for a scene like Saturday's crash.
• "We're all volunteers here and what we saw yesterday was some of the worst that we ever see," Harstad told KSFY-TV. "It's not something you easily get over. It was a very horrific scene. We're taking a lot of steps today and last night to help take care of our volunteers."
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• ONIDA, S.D. (AP) -- An Onida man was killed when he was struck by a tree that was being cut down.
• Sully County Sheriff Bill Stahl tells KCCR and KGFX that 78-year-old Wayne Rawstern was killed Monday morning when the cottonwood tree fell on top of him. Rawstern was helping a neighbor and two other people cut down the large tree in a vacant lot when the accident happened.
• Rawstern was pronounced dead at the scene.
• No one else was hurt.
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