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>> i'm the lead pio on the east side of the slide. i do have a couple of updates for you today. from an operational perspective we have a service road officially open connecting the east and west side of the slide and that's used only for emergency personnel. as you know, we have had quite a bit of rain over the last two days. and that has created a very wet environment for search efforts. we do have engineers watching for any material that is sluffing off of the landslide area and they're coordinating with teams in the feel. the stillaguamish river has risen, causing flooding of sr 530 on the...

When you think of a dozer of a track hoe you think of something that's very large. we're getting in there with those little small bobcat track hoes and they're proving to be very, very effective. some of the stuff we're using is actually heavy equipment like track hoes when we get into areas that we can work. the national guards you saw a team is also here and is going to be instrumental in helping us. and of course our regional technical rescue teams from this region have been out there working tirelessly. this makes up over 200 responders that are here on site working very, very hard to try ...