Mudslide Blocks Interstate 70, Traps Cars
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Heavy rain sent mud, rocks and charred debris pouring from a burned-over mountain and across a highway, injuring at least two people and blocking the road in both directions.
About 30 cars were trapped in as much as six feet of mud on Interstate 70 until snowplows scraped it away Friday, Garfield County officials said.
The mudslide came down Storm King Mountain, where 14 firefighters died in July fighting one of the deadliest fires in U.S. Forest Service history, county spokesman Dale Hancock said.
Cari Howard, 28, of Rifle and Kevin White, 20, of Glenwood Springs were hospitalized in fair condition, a nursing supervisor at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs said.
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