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<br />cbs4denver.com - Mudslide Destroys Homes In Chaffee County <br /> <br />Page 1 of3 <br /> <br />cbs4denver.com: Mudslide Destroys Homes In Chaffee <br />County <br /> <br />.~.~erti~t;J1.1_~_J:1_t <br /> <br />Top News <br /> <br />m~ saveTTJE-mail lii"print <br /> <br />o Jui 22, 2007 5:09 pm US;fv1ountain <br /> <br />Mudslide Destroys Homes In Chaffee County <br />Evacuations Remain In Place Sunday <br />Raj Chohan <br />Reporting <br /> <br /> <br />(C854) ALPINE, Colo. At least 125 people remained evacuated Sunday night after a mudslide in Chaffee County around the town of <br />Alpine, southwest of Buena Vista. <br /> <br />At least 31 homes were damaged on County Roads 162 and 292, said Page Croix, a dispatcher for the Chaffee County sheriff. "It was a <br />deluge," she said. "Mostly cars are totally buried," she told The Denver Post. <br /> <br />The Alpine area, above 9,500 feet, is rugged and steep. <br /> <br />"The major concern right now is drinking water," said Jennifer Mariano, Pikes Peak Emergency Coordinator. It was feared the heavy <br />deluge had contaminated wells. <br /> <br />All residents of Alpine and campers around the area, located in the shadow of Mount Princeton, were evacuated to a shelter at Buena <br />Vista High School. <br /> <br />"Either side of our cabin was covered with rivers of mud," evacuee Debby Simon said. <br /> <br />The Red Cross Disaster Assessment Team was coming in Sunday afternoon to help the evacuees. <br /> <br />Chaffee County fire chief Jim Wingert toured the damaged buildings in the town Sunday morning. "What I saw this morning shocked <br />me," he told CBS4 News. <br /> <br />Wingert said no one was hurt or injured in the slide, but that land, timber and landscape was "all over the place." <br /> <br />"It's going to take a lot of work to bring Alpine back to what it once was," Chief Wingert said. <br /> <br />Chaffee County Commissioner Jim Osborne said residents would be kept out of the area until a full damage assessment can be done. <br /> <br />"It's going to take some time, we are a smaller county," Osborne said, noting the commissioners plan to ask the state for help. <br /> <br />County sheriffs were allowing evacuated campers to go back in to retrieve their items. <br /> <br />Wingert says the area affected is a rugged, steep and canyonous. <br /> <br />A mudslide Sunday night in Lake County closed Colorado 82 over Independence Pass, the Colorado Department of Transportation said. <br /> <br />http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_ story _203105149 .html <br /> <br />7/2312007 <br />