Mt St Helens mudslide evacuation
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2023
- On May 15th 2023, Deputies from Skamania County requested our assistance evacuating a group that was stranded at the Johnston Ridge Observatory due to a mudslide. The slide destroyed a bridge on the only road in / out of the observatory. Over the course of 3 trips up and back, we were able to evacuate the stranded people, and survey the damage to the bridge. In all, 12 people and a dog were evacuated.
Way to go King County sheriffs! These are the type of vital services that the politicians absolutely need to fund. Thanks for all you do. 👍
. . . Or a 500 dollar drone.
@@jakep5121 How is the drone going to rescue the people, Einstein?
@@sweettina2 The question I have? Is who is paying to make this video? And are King Co Sheriff employees making it on the clock?
Thank you KCSO for making your helicopters available to the entire state. Your service does not go unnoticed.
🤔 get yourself out
@@SkiSkillsMontanadid you see those ladies, they could barely escape Disney world.
They take tax money from every other county on the state. They better help out!
@@jakep5121 no they dont
@@SkiSkillsMontana Not everyone is as amazingly Skilled as you. 🤔🤔🙏🙏🙏
I was there from 12-4:30pm on Sunday. It was terrifying to hear this happened just hours later. I’m grateful we left when we did and so grateful everyone got out safely. This could’ve been much worse, especially with the anniversary of the eruption coming up, bringing many visitors to the observatory.
Thank you for getting everyone safely home!
Appreciate that you also rescued the dog.
Extra kudos for doggy rescue!
This is another fine example of why, regardless of the current law enforcement sentiments, sheriffs always have support. Thanks for all the great humanitarian work you all do.
Everyday hero's doing their job,you have my utmost respect ❤😊
My daughter and I were supposed to go to Mt St Helens next Sun.
Great video, and glad noone was injured at the bridge landslide!
Wow, that's really amazing! This is a wonderful service, and you are all heroes, cheers!
Great job KCSO Guardian One, thank you for the job y'all do stay safe
I used to Elk hunt Mt. Saint Helens, the mud slides happen with any hard rain, some larger than others. A wild place.
Thanks for the great job you do in serving the public!
Great job guys. Thank you for your everyday service.
Thank you for your dedication and service. Very much appreciated.
REALLY NICE VIDEO,THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE .
Simply said , "well done" . These men and women are heroes in my mind .
Love the sound of the Huey. Great job and stay safe
I i gree about the sound. I was a huey crew chief in Nam. 67/68. 1st Ca v. Good to see they got the people to safety ok.
If I had stupid money, that's the first helicopter I'd buy. A Chinook is the second.
@@RonaldLauer-ut4ks Thanks for your service, soldier..🙂
@@PatrickKQ4HBD Save a lot of money on hangar space, maintenance, fuel...Buy a helicopter shell from the aircraft bone yard. Don't worry about flying it. Build a ham shack in a Huey!
You gentlemen are badasses! Thank you for all that you do for the citizens of Washington State!🙏
Thanks for the great view of the mountain, and the mudslide. Those hikers had a bit more adventure than they were looking for!
Great Job Deputies! Thanks for your service!!
That would suck if your car was on the other side of the collapsed bridge. Hope nobody was hurt when the bridge went down.
And rather strangely, you're one of the first people to make it across a new bridge to retrieve your car, and somehow it was towed.
That would be pretty rough.
@@jaymzx0 just imagine if it was a rental from hertz ! 😂😂😂
@@geneticdisorder1900 🫢
As soon as the helicopter dropped you off, did you think, Did I lock the car?
@@Southern-author lmao
Thank you for the good work
*_I bet that ride in helicopter will be remembered for a life time by stranded civilians..._*
Thank you for your hard work
Thank you and blessings.
Great job! Love the views.
thank you! 🏔🚁
Well done and Thank you for serving!
Thank you guys! That was great. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome...beautiful scenery too!
Great work.
Thank you for this kindness an expertise.
Excellent work !
Awesome! What a beautiful state. Thanks for the video.
Nice work guys!
Hopefully the hikers will get their cars back before the winter sets in- going to take some time for permits let alone the construction to start.
Awesome job! Definitely a Kodak moment! 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏆
You guys are awesome! With Love from British Columbia!
Very cool! Feather light touch down and happy tourists!
Thank you KCSO for all that you do for the great state of Washington!!!
Excellent job guys.
Great work, team!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING JOB
Good work. What a washout. Looks as if no one was hurt.
So cool!! Loving the new Google Earth graphics in this video, very clean landing too! I feel bad for their cars though, maybe Jake from State Farm will airlift their cars out with a Skycrane? Lol
Great Job & Great Channel!
what a crazy soundtrack for just giving people a free helicopter ride
Great job men !
Top notch help !!
Great job! Glad that last lady was told to SIT before she exited - thought she was about to stand up into the rotors 🫣
Very cool. Great work! Skamania County is fortunate to have this crew.
You rock!!!
Rock on, Air Support!
The untold heroes…..thank you.
Nice job!!!
Wonderful views😍
Just subscribed from Texas. Great video.
I wondered why that chopper went over balls to the wall heading south early today.
Strapped in pretty good there! 🙏🙏🙏 🙏🙏I bet they loved that. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love this place!
Yeah, I'd say that bridge had a problem, lol. Good to hear the dog made it!
And I admit, if I had to be airlifted out, I'd be taking video... 😁
We Hope the Bigfoot Families got out OK as Well, Thank You !!
Sasquatch!!! 😂🤣
They did except one. 👣👈
Strong Work!
I like seeing the positive news from Sheriffs.
Awesome!!
And the 43rd Anniversary of the big eruption is this thursday.
well done gents!
When I heard "mudslide" and "Mt Saint Helens" in the same sentence it took me back to the early 1970s. Mount Saint Helens was the prettiest peaked snow capped mountain I will ever see. When the mountain blew its top mud and debris raged down the mountain. Volcanic ash accumulated down wind like snow. Cars stalled with clogged air filters at 24 miles. Mathew chapter 5.
Mathew chapter 5. Is that the part in the bible that instructs how to properly beat your slaves? 😉
It was may18, 1980 ...
@@danielsill4120 Yup. I was in Port Townsend at the time. It was the weekend of the Rhododendron Festival. We had to cut over to 101, drive south down the coast to the Columbia, drive up the river on the Washington side, cut over to Oregon in Longview, drive down to Portland, then cut back across the Columbia to Vancouver so we could get home. What a day. :-) There are still mounds of ash (all grown over with brush) along I5, south of Castle Rock.
That damn mountain messed up the racing at PIR that year. Paul Newman was going to be driving a tricked-out SCCA 280zx with a factory Datsun twin-turbo V8 in place of the in-line 6. A few cars showed up but most refused to abuse their engines and cars. Can't say as I blame them. I never did get to see Newman race (in person).
@@danielsill4120 It was the early 70's when Mr. Barrow enjoyed looking at the mountain - before the explosion.
Also, I really needed to see a picture of the dog in the helicopter!!
Those doughnuts in the parking lot we pretty weak man.
Solid work on gettin those folks out
Stay safe y'all
Wow, so close to the May 18, 1980 big eruption of 43 years ago. I wasn't living in WA during that time but watched many videos about it.😀👍💙👮🐕🦺🌋
That wasn't a mudslide that was a speedy bridge removal! Be safe everyone.
At least the mountain didn't add deadly volcanic activity to the mix.
0:45 for start of explanation, 1:24 for video start
you have to admit the intro is really cool.
@Brizzled it's really cool the first 10 videos, then its about 44 seconds too long. ;P
Bravo!
Very Cool: They get to ride in a helicopter.
Not cool: Their cars are still stuck up there!
I heard if there’s a rescue, whoever they rescue gets a huge bill. Just like the ambulance.
@@jharvey9898 here in Utah that only applies if they take (fly) you to a medical facility for treatment. They pluck people off the sides of mtns all the time here for "free"
@@jharvey9898 I think it also depends on whether people have to get rescued for doing something stupid. These visitors had no way of predicting a mudslide would wipe out the road; it's not like they decided to thru-hike the woods at night or free solo the volcano.
I’ll bet their auto insurance won’t cover a loaner for the weeks or months it’ll take before they fix the bridge!
Good work
Nothing sounds better than the sound of help showing up! Modern day Calvary!
Wow, that was one heck of a mudslide. Great job KCSO air crew. Now, those poor folks all have a car stuck up there and who knows when they'll be able to get it back!
I guess the cars could be airlifted to the other side of the mudslide if they could pay for that. Pretty expensive I should think, but who knows how long before they clear that huge pile of dirt.
Nothing a big temporary culvert and an excavator couldn't remedy. In a few hours.
I could see someone renting a crane and hoisting them over. A 4x4 pickup could probably be winched across without damage.
Was/Is it closed to the public?
Its a Beautiful day, Im surprised there isn't hundreds there.
At least its the small bridge that's out.
Johnston Ridge was supposed to open to the public a few days from now. Now it will take months to replace the bridge. Kiss this season goodbye. Hopefully Windy Ridge on the east side of Mt. St. Helens will open soon. Gotta wait for the snow to melt.
@@GhostOfJulesVerne
It will probably be fixed faster being its not in a NP.
The slide happened in the middle of the night.
Oddly enough, Microsoft wrote a helicopter rescue tutorial/lesson into their Flight Simulator FSX software. Nearly identical to this evolution, including refuel at Olympia. Perhaps "Tourists stuck on St Helen's" is a recurring scenario.
Thanks King Co Rotor Heads..🙂Life from above.
Anybody notice the date on the video is 11/25/21 while the post is from 5/15/23?
ANYBODY notice that the 11/25/21 video is a night shot of a hiding crime suspect, and is part of the intro for the channel?
That'll buff right out😘
I wanted to see the dog!!
I have a bunch of footage of you guys dropping off and taking off from the Coldwater parking lot (I was in the red shirt and grey shorts) if you give me a link to send it to I’d be happy to share the footage
Those people were in no danger all had their phones out having a blast
So, what do you do if you have only one car and it's stuck at JRO for the next several months?
Wow! Cool footage. It appears that the Mountain would prefer that people get the hell OFF and stay off!
Guess that's it for the rest of the Year, if you could open the road so we can go to Cold Water Lake that would be Great! Because there's a much better gate just beyond Cold Water that is Much better to Close than the Old Haggard one on top of the Pass. Thanks! Glad nobody was hurt. That WaterFall said this is my Area!
Good on ya boys.
sounds like a UH-1 Huey, got to ride in them while in the USAF
What’s your opening music????
So my question is when and how are these people supposed to get their automobiles back down the mountain? Just as important how are they going to get around without said vehicles?
Kool! 🙏✝️
I glad I decided to go to the Columbia River and not to Spirit Lake Hwy, last weekend.
Best job ever had
What happens to the vehicles they had to leave up there?
Why I own 2 Colman mini bikes and a 250cc Dual sport motorcycle. Then, I moded one of my mini bikes for work purposes. It is easier to get around areas with a motorcycle type vehicle than anything else. They also use less gas.
Damn! I wanted to see the dog!
Helicopters are cool. Im glad people are safe. But one sherp could have shuttled those people across that slide...
What a rush, love to ride for fun.