Michael Durkin didn’t know what to expect when his flight crew received the call to respond to the Oso mudslide, but he quickly realized the scale of the disaster when the crew made visual contact with the ground.
“It was unreal,” said Durkin, a flight nurse and safety coordinator for Airlift Northwest. “Even when you see the pictures, the pictures don’t do it justice. You almost had to have seen it with your eyes. It was massive, massive amounts of earth, water and debris.”
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