On March 22, 2014, a landslide devoured an entire subdivision of their town, killing 43 people. It was the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. During a ceremony on Tuesday, loved ones said their heartache was still fresh even after all this time.
Families of those lost in the Oso slide in 2014 got official word this week that they secured the remaining $4.8 million needed for a permanent memorial.
unchanged in the past 24 hours, but officials weren t likely to get new numbers this morning. while the search effort remains, you can feel the weight of this tragedy starting to take its toll. a mother s unspeakable pain. my heart is broken. it s broken. reporter: summer raffo was driving on a state road at the time of the slide. rescue workers continue their mission five days after the side of this hill came cascading down on snohomish county. peter salvig on the response team knows this community well. familiar places on this map have a new somber reality. this guy lived and his wife died. we were on the school board together for about 30 years. reporter: the heavy equipment