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Published On: Tue, Mar 25th, 2014

Washington State mudslide: Death toll rises to 14, as many as 176 missing

Search and rescue crews at the devastating mudslide Monday found an additional six bodies, bringing the total number of dead to 14, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said. CBS published a great graphic which illustrates the region where the incident occurred – check it out below.

Washington state mudslide aftermath photo: screenshot Fox News coverage

Washington state mudslide aftermath photo: screenshot Fox News coverage

The number unaccounted for has not changed, as the identity of the victims still needs to be verified, the office said.

John Pennington, the director of the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management, stressed that the number of people possibly missing, 108, was a compilation of missing persons reports composed through a variety of different sources. He said 108 missing was by no means a complete, finalized or totally accurate number.
Some reports have the death toll as high as 176 with workers toil overnight on the rain soaked hillside.
The operational plan for the day is going to be challenging. The weather’s changed and we’ve got some rain coming in. That’s going to make it even more challenging for our folks that are on the ground there,” local fire chief Travis Hots told reporters.
Witnesses detailed how a “Dark and sticky, the mile-long flow Saturday heaved houses off their foundations, toppled trees and left a gaping cavity on what had been a tree-covered hillside. In the frantic rescue, searchers spotted mud-covered survivors by the whites of their waving palms,” as reported by CBS.
Reporters are distributing countless scientific analytic reports which “warned” of such a mudslide, but little can be done now as the efforts continue to try to locate survivors.
Washington State mudslide-locator-map
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