| Scores Buried: Swiss Avalanche Traps Dam Workers | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1739 |
| Catalog #: | 426751 | |
| Clip Number: | 426751-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 038-071-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:34:36 - 00:36:19 | |
| Location: | Switzerland | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Avalanches DISASTERS: Rescues DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Switzerland SAFETY: Search and Rescue | |
| Description: | One of the most horrible disasters in Swiss history takes an estimated 90 lives. 1000 men were at work on a hydroelectric project at Saas-Fee near the Italian border when a section of the Allalian Glacier broke off, sending millions of tons of ice & rock hurtling down the mountainside crushing to death 90 lives. Panning LS aftermath of avalanche. MS officials & police standing at rescue site. MSs - men running with empty stretcher. MS military officers wearing overseas caps closing doors of ambulance. MS man getting into rescue helicopter. Air to air shot of rescue chopper flying away from cam. MS crane shovel digging, night. TLS/MSs - rescue crews working, digging through debris, night, one worker wearing leather cap w/ flaps while smoking cigarette. MS rescue dog walking through snow mound. Fuzzy MS man carrying first aid kit, walking on mound. MSs - rescue workers digging, night. TLS crane pulling remains of car crushed by avalanche. | |
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