– There was a tremendous bang, then slid down the mountain, says Tom Kreken to bt.no.
Approximately at 09.30 am walked the 150 meters wide soil slide in Luster in Luster.
Kreken lives a few hundred meters below where soil avalanche stopped.
– I saw some outbuildings as agreed, but no houses there inhabited says Kreken.
Police in Sogn og Fjordane reports on Twitter that there are no reports of injuries in the slide, but that two or three outbuildings total damaged.
Increased avalanche danger
Shortly after the slide went in Jostedalen notified NVE increased avalanche danger Monday.
– as a consequence of the expected rainfall in the next few days, says brigt Samdal, regional manager of Norway’s waterways and Energy Directorate (NVE).
– We try to salvage animals
According Kreken’s landslide about 150 meters wide and started about 500 meters up the mountainside.
– The slide parted in the middle, now says some animals stuck between the river and the slide. We are trying to rescue them now.
Only luck
It should be between 70 and 80 people in the area, but no person shall thus have been taken off the slide.
– It’s just luck. There are many animals and several outbuildings that were taken by the landslide. Fortunately no people, says Tom Kreken, who live just below where soil slide halted.
– I saw several outbuildings that were taken, but no houses people live in, says Kreken.
Animals are stuck
He describes a violent blow before it slid down the mountain.
– The slide parted in the middle, now says some animals stuck between the river and the slide. There are ten animals who are trapped. I have just got up three sheep from the river, but expects that some sheep were taken by the landslide, says Kreken.
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