Dozens of people lined Ketchikan’s streets Tuesday afternoon to honor Sean Griffin, the City of Ketchikan employee who was killed in Sunday’s landslide.
Crews were working Tuesday to clear tons of earth and trees that were perched precariously on a steep slope above a densely populated neighborhood.
Dial and Steve Rydeen, the borough’s fire chief and incident commander, surveyed the damage caused by the landslide Tuesday. Tons of earth and trees slid 1,100 feet down a steep hillside, crashing into homes below. The landslide was 250 feet wide at its widest point, officials said. Since the Third Avenue slide, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources landslide hazard team has been monitoring the stability of the slope. Mort Larsen, a member of the state’s landslide team, said Tuesday that no landslide movement had been recorded in the area since Sunday afternoon.
Residents on White Cliff Avenue work quickly to empty their battered home of possessions on Tuesday, ahead of another storm. The National Weather Service in Juneau was forecasting that a storm would hit Ketchikan late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning. The rainy weather is anticipated through the weekend, but meteorologists say the worst of the storm will hit farther north — closer to Yakutat and Juneau.
Three people were hospitalized from the slide. One person was treated and released Sunday. Kate Govaars, a spokesperson for PeaceHealth, said two others were still patients at Ketchikan Medical Center on Tuesday. Citing privacy laws, Govaars said she could not publicly identify the patients or disclose their injuries in detail. She said both patients were in “stable condition” by Tuesday morning.
Some First Avenue residents were able to return home Monday. A mandatory evacuation notice remained in effect Tuesday for residents living on nearby streets. Rydeen said some people living on Second Avenue would likely be waiting a while to return home.For others, the clean-up effort had been difficult. A child care center at the bottom of the hill flooded Sunday evening.
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