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Track Santa!
Updated: Monday, 24 Dec 2012, 11:14 AM EST
Published : Monday, 24 Dec 2012, 11:05 AM EST
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) -- Volunteers are pulling on their Santa hats, phone lines are set, and tracking screens are ready -- NORAD Tracks Santa is primed for its 57th annual goodwill mission.
Santa trackers start taking calls early Monday, telling children -- and some adults -- when Santa is due at their house. The last shift won't end until nearly 24 hours later.
The number is 877-HI-NORAD or 877-446-6723.
Updates will be posted online (http://www.noradsanta.org) , on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/noradsanta ) and Twitter ( https://twitter.com/NoradSanta ).
The operation is based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., home of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
NORAD Tracks Santa began in 1955 when a newspaper ad listed the wrong phone number for kids to call Santa. They wound up calling the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor.
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