Smoke rising from Round Valley High School, June 11, 2010 (Photo: Loren W. Begay/Eagar Resident)

EAGAR, Ariz. (AP) — It has been exactly two months since a plane crashed into an eastern Arizona school, killing a Florida family.

The family was on a cross-country trip in June when their plane went down and hit Round Valley High School in Eagar.

Much of the school was severely damaged but will be back Thursday for the start of classes.

Principal John Allen says people have been working hard to get ready for the first day of school.

The plane reportedly crashed just after refueling at the nearby Springerville Airport. When it split in two, gallons of gasoline caught on fire.

Since the crash students and community members have placed flowers and candles along the fence that surrounds the damaged portion of the school as a memorial for the family that died.

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Information from: KTVK-TV, http://www.azfamily.com/

Flames and smoke billow from Round Valley High School in Eagar, June 11, 2010 (Photo: Nick Waters/Eagar Resident)

Smoke coming from Round Valley High School where a Cessna crashed into the main classroom building, June 11, 2010 (Photo: Loren W. Begay, Resident)

FILE PHOTO: Flames and smoke billow from Round Valley High School in Eagar (Photo: Nick Waters/Eagar Resident)

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Funeral services were held for the Wesley Chapel family killed in a plane crash in Arizona last week.

The family has been identified as Jeffrey, Ronna, Alexa and Carlie Ulrich. They were remembered at a closed service at Congregation Kol Ami in Tampa on Friday. The family was to be buried at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater.

The funeral was attended by law enforcement, federal agents and officials. Jeffrey Ulrich was a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The family of four was killed when the single-engine plane Jeffrey Ulrich was piloting crashed into a high school in Eagar, Ariz., on June 11. The family was on a vacation to the Grand Canyon.

Smoke coming from Round Valley High School where a Cessna crashed into the main classroom building (Photo: Loren W. Begay, Resident) (CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE)

Apache County Sheriff’s Office Commander Matrese Avila says a small Cessna crashed into the high school, and officials evacuated homes in the neighborhoods to the north and east of the school because of high winds and some fuel tanks located nearby.

After taking off from the Springerville aiport, the Cessna circled the area two or three times before it suddenly crashed into the main building at Round Valley High School in Eagar at about 2 p.m., Apache County sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Guinn said.  Several reports are indicating that the plane may have been trying to make an emergency landing on the practice football field next to the Round Valley Ensphere Dome, which is the football stadium on the high school’s campus.

Firefighters from nearly a dozen agencies fought flames that were erupting 20 to 30 feet above the roof of the two-story school. It took several hours for firefighters to put out the blaze.

National Transportation Safety Board officials were expected at the crash scene Saturday morning to handle the investigation, according to Show Low Fire Department spokesman Eric Neitzel.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Flames and smoke billow from Round Valley High School in Eagar (Photo: Nick Waters/Eagar Resident)

Smoke rises into the air after a small plane crashed into Round Valley High School in Eager, Ariz. on Friday, June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/The White Mountain Independent, Karen Warnick)

William Inmon (AP Photo)

FLAGSTAFF (AP) By: Felicia Fonseca — An Arizona man being held on a murder charge made surprise confessions in two other killings, and told authorities he would have continued on a vigilante-style killing spree if he hadn’t been caught, authorities said Wednesday.

William Inmon of the rural eastern Arizona town of Springerville is among four people charged in the death of 16-year-old Ricky Flores from nearby St. Johns. Flores’ body was found burned and buried in a shallow grave two weeks after his mother reported him missing on Aug. 14.

Inmon, 21, pleaded guilty to that slaying and confessed to the separate shooting deaths of 60-year-old Daniel Achten and 72-year-old William “Stoney” McCarragher, Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting said.

Achten was reported missing in March. McCarragher was found shot to death in his bed in 2007. Both men lived alone on rural properties outside of St. Johns.

Whiting said Inmon expressed remorse about killing Flores — the two were known to be friends. But Inmon told authorities that he was proud of the other two slayings, saying that both of them needed to go, Whiting said.

“He is ridding society of less-than-desirable people, in his mind. People he determines should not be in society,” Whiting said.

Inmon had planned to kill two others, including a drug dealer, Whiting said.

Inmon led investigators last week to Achten’s body on Achten’s property. Like Flores’ body, Achten’s was burned and buried in a shallow grave, Whiting said.

Inmon had been considered a potential suspect in McCarragher’s murder, but was never charged, Whiting said. Instead, authorities focused on a group of youths who discovered McCarragher’s body days after he was shot.

When asked whether he had any regrets, Whiting said Inmon told authorities he wished he hadn’t involved others in the murders.

Inmon’s friend, Joseph Roberts, faces a first-degree murder charge in McCarragher’s death. The 22-year-old is also charged with concealment of a dead body, tampering with evidence, hindering prosecution and mutilating a human body in Achten’s death, authorities said.

An after-hours call Wednesday to Inmon’s attorney, Albert Lassen, went unanswered.

Prosecutors have agreed not to pursue the death penalty because Inmon was cooperating with authorities. He faces 25 years to life on each count of first-degree murder.

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