The Dexes / Avalanche / 5229181

Eventdex · Avalanche

WRN P.W. SND & KENAI MTNS

5229181

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event_typeAvalanche
ncei_event_id5,229,181
episode_id1,110,011
begin_utc2001-01-01T19:00:00+00:00
end_utc2001-01-01T20:00:00+00:00
stateALASKA
cz_typeZ
cz_nameWRN P.W. SND & KENAI MTNS
deaths_direct0
deaths_indirect0
injuries_direct1
injuries_indirect0
wfo_sourceNEWSPAPER
event_narrativeAnother avalanche, located at Aaron's Last Run, injured Michael McKinney, 31, of Fairbanks Monday afternoon. The location is the same as the one which claimed 6 lives in March 1999 and is named for one of those killed. The slide was 100 to 300 yards wide and carried McKinney perhaps 1,000 feet down the steep slope, where it settled into a 15 foot-deep debris field. According to experts, "This guy is very, very lucky to have wound up coming out of this thing alive". Rescuers quickly spread out in a line and soon heard McKinney's voice rising from the snow. "He was saying, 'Help me God, please save me, somebody find me,', one of the rescuers said. "Just his mouth was sticking out and his one hand."
year2,001

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