A house in Valsøyfjord in the municipality of Heim in Trøndelag was hit by a landslide on Friday evening. All the people were pulled out of the collapse.
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Police reported the incident at 7:30 pm on Friday evening.
– Half of the house must have been removed from the landslide. He’s still raging in the area, shift manager Roger Gjersvik at center 110 Midt Norge told VG not long after he was reported.
The police inform VG that six people were involved.
Around 10:20 pm, the 110 station informs VG that the last two missing people have been taken out of the house.
– All six people in the house who were affected by the landslide have now been reported and taken out, police report.
The extent of the damage is unknown.
For several hours, the emergency services worked to locate and free two people left in the collapsed house.
– We located them. There is no direct contact with them, said rescue manager Andreas Ingsøy at the main rescue center in southern Norway.
He stated that there are binding conditions on the site.
– The way they located them is that they heard sounds, besides that it is difficult to have direct contact with them. There is no conversation going on, but they have felt signs of life.
– 200 meters in length
Operations manager Gaasvik says the slide is about 200 meters long and 20 meters wide.
– He took the house and an attached garage with him, says Gaasvik.
The main rescue center in Sør-Trøndelag told VG that three air ambulances and a rescue helicopter are on site.
A dog patrol helps search the area. Civil protection is coming with support for logistics and lighting, police say.
Crisis staff set up
The E39 is closed in place after the landslide, writes Vegtrafikksentralen on Twitter.
The municipality of Heim is located southwest of Trøndelag, bordering Møre and Romsdal.
Heim Municipality Mayor Odd Jarle Svanem tells VG that the municipality has set up a crisis team.
– For us as a municipality it is a crisis. We also called the psychosocial crisis team.
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VG spoke to a man who is at the crash site. He happened to pass the scene of the accident on Friday night as he was driving home to Kristiansund.
The man tells VG that half of the house has been occupied by the landslide.
– The rest is gone. It looks like a garage was also taken by the landslide, she says.
The man estimates that the landslide is about 300 meters long and 50-100 meters wide.
– Seems to be a landslide. The landslide almost completely ended in the sea. Several trees are also broken.
The man says there are now three helicopters on the scene. One rescue helicopter and two ambulance helicopters.
A neighbor tells VG that firefighters have borrowed equipment from him in connection with the rescue work.
– I see that there is a serious landslide from the new section of the E39 that has brought with it a residential building downhill towards the old E39, says a neighbor of VG.
– The fire works like nothing else to get them out, all thanks to them, because the landslide is still in motion. Really good work. They were here to borrow a chainsaw and gasoline to continue their work.
The Norwegian Administration of Oncoming Public Roads
In the area where the landslide occurred, construction of a new E39 is underway. Betna-Stormyra it is a combined development of three sections which will provide 26km of new road.
The director of the development division of the Norwegian Public Road Administration, Kjell Inge Davik, tells VG that he does not know how close the road structure is to the crash site.
– We have our people on the way now, he says.
Davik says he does not want to speculate on the possible connection between the construction of the road and the landslide.
– I have no comments on this, it is too early to speculate, the most important thing now is to save people. This is the first priority, says Davik.
Watch the video of the landslide:
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