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GJERDRUM (VG) Rescue teams will enter the landslide area on Friday. – There is a risk of entering that area, says task leader Roy Alkvist.
– We have worked hard overnight, says task leader Roy Alkvist at a press conference on Friday.
Plans have been made for rescue teams to enter the lower part of the “red zone”.
– There is a risk of entering that area. We depend on having a lot of crew to be able to get out quickly, says Alkvist.
The Armed Forces engineer battalion assists with a paver that will be driven and can take crews to a house in the lower part of the landslide area.
The tops of the vehicles slide onto a 26-meter-long bridge. The Armed Forces use the paver, among other things, to cross rivers.
– We see that it is an opportunity for the paver to fully enter the house that is located on the land masses, says Alkvist.
In addition to the paver, crews will use soil reinforcement mats that reinforce the surface.
PAINTER: This morning the paver from the Gjerdrum of the Armed Forces arrived.
NVE helps map the road and monitor the landslide area. The Swedish USAR crew is scheduled to be dispatched. These are rescue teams with special experience in rescue and search in populated areas. USAR specially trained rescue teams are present with 14 people.
NVE considers the area safe to enter.
Ten people are not yet counted. It concerns both women, men and children.
Prepare the way
– We operate and prepare to bring ground personnel. “We haven’t done it yet, and we hope we have them today,” COO Ketil Lund told VG on Friday morning.
Until now, rescue teams have avoided entering the avalanche zone, because they thought it was too dangerous.
When three rescue teams were shot down from a helicopter yesterday, the task leader said he was on the verge of indefensibility.
The teams at the site are now preparing a path to the avalanche.
SEE ALSO: Several buildings and a dog were washed into the sea after several landslides at Kråkneset in Alta in June 2019.
Will use the light of day
It is snowing heavily in the avalanche area at Gjerdrum. At the house of culture in Ask, rescue teams for shift changes flock in the morning, replacing the night crews.
The temperature has slipped just below zero.
The sun rises a little after nine. Police have used the time before 9 o’clock for handovers and planning meetings.
VG has not yet been confirmed when the operation will begin.
BRØYTER VEI: Crews work on site Friday morning. Photo: Odin Jæger, VG
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Entering from the west side
The plan at this point is to enter the landslide zone from the west side.
– We entered from the safest place, in the middle of the west side. Then we’ll see if we can do it pretty quickly, as long as we have daylight. We hope to achieve this, says Operations Manager Lund.
The red arrow shows where rescue teams plan to enter the landslide. The red field shows the landslide area at Gjerdrum. On Wednesday, police said the landslide is approximately 700 meters long and 300 meters wide. Since then it has expanded a bit as it has flaked where new masses have emerged.
There are no plans to dig into the landslides. While some houses are relatively intact in the fast clay, others are completely gone.
– We will not dig, we will take what is above. We have selected the areas where survivors are most likely to be found, says task leader Lund.
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Will use Swedish crews
The Swedish USAR crew is scheduled to be dispatched. These are rescue teams with special experience in rescue and search in populated areas.
14 people from the USAR crew are present.
– We also use our own Norwegian crews with dogs. We have more to play in, but we have to think about safety, because, like I said, it is a dangerous area, says task leader Lund.
