About 500 people isolated after landslides in Selbu – Adresseavisen

the Case is updated.

This Monday, it was many hundred selbygg that either came to work or school because of an avalanche that closes the road to 968 by Vikvarvet.

We assume that there is talk about the approximately 500 that are isolated because of the avalanche. It is possible to get past on foot, but there is no bilveier outside, ” says the mayor of Selbu, Ole Morten Balstad.

Village Vikvarvet in Selbu was isolated on Monday morning because of a landslide. Photo: erling skjervold

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Health is taken care of

He emphasizes that it is not allowed to go on foot straight over the avalanche, as this can be dangerous.

the Mayor of Selbu, Ole Morten Balstad. Photo: Jens Petter Søraa

- Health are taken care of. Several healthcare workers are locked inside. They will deal with the health problems inside the isolated area than so long. It is a forest that can be used to get people in or out if it becomes necessary, but we advise no one to use it, ” says the mayor.

the Slide should be examined by geologists when it becomes daylight.

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- Never experienced isolation

Hilde Reitan and her daughter had received that the road was closed, and they had to go across a field when they came to the skredstedet.

My daughter was on the Against-camp in Granåsen, and I drove her back to the avalanche, and as we went past. It was very wet, but it went smoothly, ” she says.

She has lived in over 20 years in the Vikvarvet, but never experienced to be isolated.

I have not experienced anything like that before. I will be at work in the afternoon and hope that the road is open by then, ” she says.

- Hjemmetrim today

Oddbjørn Kjøsnes staying at Vikvarvet, about two and a half miles from the avalanche, and tells him that he was going to pull on the trim when he was made aware that an avalanche has closed the road.

- It is not possible to get out from the hamlet of now. Someone who has firhjulstrekkere uses a forest to get out, but it can be icy and steep, so it would not I have run. So it is hjemmetrim in the day, ” says Kjøsnes.

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- the Road is a priority

Vegtrafikksentralen and the police are waiting for the geologists to do their investigations and see if it is safe to clean the place.

- the Avalanche has passed so that the village is isolated. The road is a priority, says trafikkoperatør Mohammad Amiri by Vegtrafikksentralen.