Crews are working to clear a large avalanche early Friday that covered upper Hiland Road in the South Fork Valley, narrowly missing several homes. Nobody was hurt, authorities say.
An avalanche early Friday covered upper Hiland Road in the South Fork Valley, Anchorage police said. There was no indication that people were trapped and no homes were hit. . There was no indication that people were trapped, although avalanche debris narrowly missed several homes.
Officers were called to the 2400 block of Hiland, near River Lane, around 1:15 a.m. and found that a roughly 500-foot section of the road was covered by at least 40 feet of snow, police said. The area is about a half mile north of the popular South Fork Valley Trailhead.Homes uphill of the avalanche and in the South River Lane neighborhood will not have road access until the avalanche debris is cleared.
“Crews are working on avalanche mitigation to make it safe for road crews to remove the snow,” police wrote in the statement. “The snow removal process may take several days.”
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