Raw Footage of the Mount St. Helens Eruption in Skamania County (Washington)

- Transcript
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big. One. Right. Third thing.
Enjoy. Enjoy. The
folks. I hope you will. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. With. This. Right.
Raising. The system. They had waked up just like that and I got a chance. And then everything's you know it's really trying. And.
It was 1980. May 18 when day turned
into night time in the town of Yakima St. Helens finally bluer stacks in the Ashes 10 miles high. One man would not a vacuum. Set in or out of. That strange toaster Harry. He sure is. They say that you are a phony. NOT say that you are nothing. But a special kind of crazy. That makes me hope and pray you're safe with me and then you're paying. The money flows and the ashes. Bearing your own. And many here you have. A landslide zone. And someone said you saw my side sat on the tree. Listen down to the river. Toward your victory. String. Theory. Sure. They say you were. Raising. Things. Right. You're saying.
That man you're. Looking at this backwards. When I leave them and take my name off the. Chain decide does in my life and it's going to sit down. Like to see the man that I know that leave you here. In a very special land. Where Spirit Lake still shimmering Stan. Now if. There is a heaven. There. They would. Shut the gates on or recast. St. Mary's. Church so that. They say that you say that your. Mother especially for. Your sake man you're good. Officials have finally been able to determine how many people are known dead in the Mt. St. Helens disaster
and how many are still missing. But coverage of the bodies may begin tomorrow. Steve Williams reports from Toledo. The death toll is now officially set at 14. That's the number of bodies that have been cited by helicopter pilots. The list of missing is now 76. Some of those could still be alive. Civilian and military authorities have decided the time has come to remove the bodies whose locations have been confirmed. When will you be able to go in to get them. And we're hoping that that we're going to converse that task more. Why was it decided at this time to go in and get them why not leave them there for a while and then search for people or so who have survived. The search for people who have survived it continues. We have not let up on that debt continues. It's just that we felt that we can do both. No search or rescue flights took off today because of rain and a low cloud ceiling but that did allow time for officials to consolidate their search coordination center at a new site here at the Lido airport bringing in units from Kelso and other
locations. It's a matter of convenience convenience as far as the air traffic. Kelso is there. A.
- Contributing Organization
- Oregon Public Broadcasting (Portland, Oregon)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/153-04dncnp8
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- Description
- Raw Footage Description
- This raw footage is a collection of clips of stock footage of the Mount St. Helens Eruption of 1980. Its impact is captured through a combination of aerial shots, on the ground interviews and archival footage of the eruption itself.
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- Topics
- Environment
- Rights
- Grovel Productions 1990
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:49:06
- Credits
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- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
Identifier: 116053.0 (Unique ID)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Original
Duration: 01:00:00:00?
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Raw Footage of the Mount St. Helens Eruption in Skamania County (Washington),” Oregon Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-153-04dncnp8.
- MLA: “Raw Footage of the Mount St. Helens Eruption in Skamania County (Washington).” Oregon Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-153-04dncnp8>.
- APA: Raw Footage of the Mount St. Helens Eruption in Skamania County (Washington). Boston, MA: Oregon Public Broadcasting, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-153-04dncnp8