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A house in Valsøyfjord in the municipality of Heim in Trøndelag was hit by a landslide on Friday evening. One person was confirmed dead.
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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.
At 22.57 the police report that a person was found dead after the landslide in the municipality of Heim. The other five people are assisted by the health system.
For several hours, the emergency services worked to locate and free the people left in the collapsed house.
Eventually it was reported that there were two people left in the 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.
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 said.
One person would have been trapped. The police inform VG that the person in question was not at home, but he was out.
– 200 meters in length
Operations manager Gaasvik said the landslide is about 200 meters long and 20 meters wide.
– He took the house and an attached garage with him, said 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.
Watch the video of the landslide:
Crisis staff set up
The E39 closed in place after the landslide, Vegtrafikksentralen wrote on Twitter.
The municipality of Heim is located in the southwest of Trøndelag, bordering Møre and Romsdal.
Heim Municipality Mayor Odd Jarle Svanem confirmed to 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 was 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 told VG that half of the house was occupied by the landslide.
– The rest is gone. It looks like a garage was also taken by the landslide, she said.
The man has estimated 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 said there were several helicopters on site.
A neighbor told VG that firefighters borrowed equipment from him in connection with the rescue work.
– I see there is a severe landslide from the new section of the E39 which has brought a residential building with it on its descent to the old E39, the neighbor told 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 roads administration, Kjell Inge Davik, told VG earlier that he did not know how close the road structure is to the crash site.
– We have our people on the way now, he said.
Davik does not speculate that there may be a link 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, Davik said.
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