Several days after the landslide, the death toll was growing, and the severity of the situation was setting in. At one point, first responders said they were searching for as many as 200 missing people.

In this episode, Jake Whittenberg talks to local officials and emergency managers, who recall what it was like to navigate the response and how the community pulled together.

Several days after the landslide, the death toll was growing, and the severity of the situation was setting in. At one point, first responders said they were searching for as many as 200 missing people. In this episode, Jake Whittenberg talks to local officials and emergency managers, who recall what it was like to navigate the response and how the community pulled together.

The Searching

On March 22, 2014, the deadliest landslide in U.S. history wiped out a small neighborhood in Washington state. The tiny town of Oso and other nearby communities were rocked by the slide and cut off from the outside. In this five-part podcast, KING 5 dives into the day the disaster struck, the weeks of searching and cleanup that followed, and the ongoing impact a decade later. Hear from first responders, the residents who survived and the family of those killed in the slide.

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