A photo from open sources Photo: AP US residents barely had time exhale by surviving snowstorms that lasted several months, when another natural disaster struck America. Due to heavy rains that did not stop for several weeks, March 22, a series of landslides occurred in Washington County, that hit Oso and Darrington – small settlements in suburb of the capital. Streams of mud and stones covered 30 private houses, four people died as a result, CNN reports. Different injuries at least seven people received degrees of severity, among them six month old baby and 81 year old male, both in critical condition. Several victims were hospitalized in a medical Harborview Center in Seattle. Emergency rescue operation landslide continues: search services believe that under piles stones and debris can remain people. Missing there are 18 people. Rescuers give disappointing forecasts: the landslide that came down is more like quicksand, and a layer of mud so fat that you hear cries for help and narrow your search virtually impossible. In addition, experts fear another landslide: soil on a hillside located nearby, still unstable. Eyewitnesses said they heard a noise and screams under the rubble of one of the houses as early as Saturday night, however Rescuers failed to disassemble the blockage. According to the head Travis Hots team working on the scene, dirt layer turned out to be too deep, and rescuers, sorting the rubble, exposed his life is in serious danger, so the search was suspended. According to the police, there are no more cries for help in this place. have heard. The width of the landslide that came down was about 45 meters. Flow partially blocked the Stillaguamish river, due to which the local authorities were forced to declare evacuation; residents of settlements located below along the river, urged not to approach the overpasses and bridges. Detachment rapid response recognized landslide completely atypical a phenomenon for the region and has already called it the worst natural disaster in Washington over the last decades.
Anna KOROLEVA
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