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Dozens of vehicles stuck in Lake Hughes-area mudslide
LA County Sep 12, 2022
Los Angeles County Fire Department Air Operations Section used firehawk helicopters to rescue people in Lake Hughes. | Photo courtesy of Los Angeles County Fire Department Air Operations Section
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Crews Monday continued their efforts to clear roadways blocked by mudslides in the Lake Hughes area that stranded dozens of vehicles.
A mudslide was first reported to the California Highway Patrol at 7:39 p.m. Sunday in the 20000 block of Pine Canyon Road.
The moving mud reportedly pushed vehicles across the road. One woman told the CHP her two children were on top of her vehicle that slid off the road. Others reported water was getting inside their vehicles.
Los Angeles County Fire Department ground crews and helicopter crews helped rescue about 50 people who became stranded in about two dozen vehicles along Pine Canyon Road.
According to a Monday morning report from the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Air Operations Section, crews in Firehawk helicopters used night vision technology to rescue eight adults and six children from five different sites spread across several miles of flooded Pine Canyon Road.
The California Highway Patrol issued a SigAlert that remained in effect late Monday morning involving Elizabeth Lake Road from Johnson Road to Pine Canyon Road, and a stretch of Lake Hughes Road.
