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Battalion/Page 10
April 2, 1982
Four avalanches in California
Rescue efforts delayed
United Press International
SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. —
Four avalanches roared down a
Sierra peak, shoving a two-story
building into a ski lodge and kill
ing at least three people. Bliz
zard conditions and fear of
more snow slides prevented re-
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scue teams from searching for as
many as a dozen missing people.
Rescuers rushed to the area
on “snowcats” but had to wait
until dawn to resume the search
for missing because of blizzard
conditions and the threat of
more avalanches.
The first of the avalanches to
hit the Alpine Meadows ski re
sort — located 2 miles east of
Squaw Valley — carried a two-
story “A-frame” building into
the resort’s lodge, killing at least
three people.
Officials said there were as
many as four avalanches in the
Alpine Meadows area Wednes
day and another in Squaw Val
ley, where 3 to 4 feet of snow has
been falling daily since Sunday.
Nearby residents were
ordered to evacuate their homes
and were taken to the Sierra
Mountain Intermediate School
in nearby Truckee. Sheriff’s de
puties, ambulances, fire trucks
and California Highway Patrol
units were dispatched to the re
sort, but some were hampered
by smaller avalanches.
The avalanche in Squaw Val
ley, site of the 1960 Winter
Olympics, buried two houses.
e people were rescued unin-
ed.
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Placer County Sheriff’s Chief
Jim Webber said three bodies
were uncovered near the Alpine
Meadows resort.
Authorities said two people
were injured in the avalanches at
the resort but the extent of in
juries was not known.
Webber said one avalanche
pushed a two-story equipment
storage building into the main
lodge of the Alpine Meadows re
sort, smashing windows and a
portion of the wall.
Rescue workers and dogs
searched the snow at the 7,000-
foot-high resort for survivors
but the mission was called off
after several hours as the bliz
zard became worse and the ava
lanche danger increased.
“We are moving out our per
sonnel because of the danger of
other avalanches,” said Sgt.
Keven Besana of the Placer
County Sheriffs Department.
A supervisor at Tahoe Forest
Hospital in Truckee said the
facility had been alerted to re
ceive as many as 20 victims.
Authorities also learned
Wednesday night there had
been skiers on the slopes and
lifts when the avalanches struck.
Earlier, it was reported skiing
had been canceled for the day at
the popular resort because of
the bad weather, but mainte
nance workers and other em
ployees were on the job.
“We were told the lodge was
closed due to poor road condi
tions,” Webber said. “Now we
are told people were skiing on
hills and were on the lift. We
really don’t know what we have
now on the number of people
who were in the area.”
A second slide buried cars in
the parking lot of the resort.
An avalanche expert advised
evacuation of more than 100 re
sidents in the area, Webber said.
Margy Barrett, manager of
River Ranch resort, 2 miles from
Alpine Meadows, said a slide at
the junction of of the resort’s ac
cess road and Highway 89
knocked over a California High
way Patrol car. Its occupants
apparently were not injured.
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Reagan won’t halt nukes
cites Soviet superiority
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„ LOS ANGELES —
NFL Commissi
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan will not clamp an im
mediate freeze on the U.S. nuc-
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lear arms buildup because he be
lieves the Soviet U nion is so rich
in weaponry it could live
through a doomsday missile ex
change “and hit us again.”
Because Moscow owns such
“a definite margin of superior
ity” over the United States,
Reagan said Wednesday a freeze
now “would be disadvan
tageous, in fact, even dangerous
to us.”
The president, however, en
dorsed a Senate nuclear
weapons-control proposal and
said the U.S. team would be
ready by summer to begin the
planned series of strategic arms
reductions talks with the Soviet
Union.
Reagan opened his ninth na
tionally broadcast news confer
ence by inviting Moscow “to join
with us now, to substantially re
duce nuclear weapons and make
an important breakthrough for
lasting peace.”
The president, remembering
“four wars in my lifetime,” said
he was determined to push
ahead for “realistic arms control
agreements.”
“I share the determination of
today’s young people that such a
tragedy, which would be re
ndered even more terrible by
the monstrous inhumane
weapons in the world’s nuclear
arsenals, must never happen
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