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GJERDRUM / OSLO (Dagbladet): On Saturday morning, nine people are still missing after the landslide at Ask in Gjerdrum on Wednesday night.
The search operation, which stopped at 5 p.m. Friday night due to darkness, is now starting again.
– We are in the process of implementation in the field now in the landslide area, says police operations manager Roy Alkvist at a news conference Saturday morning.
– This is a job that involves some form of risk. The stock itself is a risky stock, he says, stating that conditions in the landslide area are the same as on Friday.
No new discoveries were made overnight.
I hope to find survivors
Alkvist says there will be fire, health and police teams in the area on Saturday.
Police describe the search operation as a rescue operation and Alkvist says they hope to find survivors.
The first death was confirmed on Friday. The person will undergo an autopsy and can be identified on Saturday.
Alkvist says she has a strong understanding that families who miss someone after the Ask landslide find it frustrating that time passes before the victim is identified.
– We are aware that it is a delicate and sad situation that we are discovered and that we do not receive notifications from relatives. That there are people sitting and wondering who it is. We understand that it is frustrating, he says.
The Swedish crisis team left Gjerdrum
A Swedish USAR team from western Sweden, consisting of a crew of 14, leaves the search operation in Gjerdrum on Saturday.
A USAR team was dispatched to Gjerdrum from Trondheim on Friday afternoon. Then the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DSB) announced that they no longer needed reinforcements from Sweden.
– There have been difficult circumstances and complicated rescue work, but cooperation with Norwegian rescue management has worked very well, he says Kent Kockum, NUSAR team leader in the Greater Gothenburg rescue service, in a press release and continues:
– This kind of effort and collaboration provides many lessons and experiences from which we will benefit greatly in the future, he says.
The press release states that the Swedish team is prepared to be able to send more reinforcements to Norway if necessary.
The landslide is closely monitored.
The Norwegian Directorate of Water Resources and Energy (NVE) claims that on Saturday, three days after the landslide started, there is still escalation on the Gjerdrum landslide.
– Closely monitored, says regional manager Toril Hofshagen at NVE on Saturday morning.
– There have also been new shelling throughout the night, as expected, in the northeast part of the landslide zone. It is an important part that is continuously monitored, how the landslide can produce new projectiles, says Hofshagen.
Speed up the search
I spent the night planning
The Friday night and late night search was deemed too risky for rescue teams to move across the ground in the area of the landslide in the dark. This is partly due to the fact that the edge of the avalanche is difficult to control.
The landslide area was continuously and actively monitored during the afternoon and evening by police drones and by teams that, among other things, have heat search teams.
In addition to actively monitoring the crash site, police and other rescue resources spent the afternoon and evening planning and preparing for the start of new ground-level searches as soon as the light arrived on Saturday.
Photo: Ørjan Nerland / NGI
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Have hope
Task leader Geir Sønderål in the fire service told Dagbladet on Friday that they would plan to start tomorrow night.
They also worked to add electricity to homes that have been evacuated, to ensure residual value in relation to cold. They tried to set up facilities such as tents and heating for the USAR group, which will operate on Saturday.
– Our idea is that we search with the hope of finding survivors. It’s hard to say what would save them, but buildings have been captured. There may be rooms that are intact, where people may have stayed. That is the hope we have, from my point of view.
