Footage digitized from the Mount St. Helens Eruption Aftermath Films (FV341:004), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries. Detailed description of this item is as follows:
Cars stopped in front of a "Road Closed" sign, man comments “Looks like we’re going to be here a while,” and camera zooms in on another man playing banjo in the back of his truck; empty roads with cars stopped on the side; Toutle River filled with ash, mud and debris; aerial and ground views of impacted communities, Mount St. Helens belching ash, and Toutle River filled with ash, mud and debris; cargo ships and smaller vessels on river and going under bridge; [0:25:22] woman at press conference reporting on missing persons, asking individuals not connected to search and rescue missions to stay out of the area of eruption, and informing of airport closures; [0:27:41] man commenting on volcanic activity over the past 24 hours at Mount St. Helens; [0:30:50] different man reporting on the toxicity of the particles in the air, explaining resuspension of particulates; man in uniform standing on a road in a mask and speaking to drivers; workers sweeping and shoveling a thick layer of ash in road; cars driving on road surrounded by thick ash cloud and honking horns; ash cloud thickening and making road barely visible, ambulance speeds by; [0:35:06] reporter standing beside road reporting on ash eruptions; footage of cars that collided on road due to lack of visibility; woman is escorted into ambulance; first responders tend to injured individual in road and place them on a stretcher; helicopters landing; [0:38:45] reporter interviewing Army major about use of airplanes and helicopters for search and rescue; footage of cows in field; view from inside of car driving through ash.
