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Boodry Street Flood
A resident surveys the damage done to Boodry Street homes during a historic flood. Around 10 residences had to be evacuated on the street and several were damaged as a hillside collapsed.Natalie Newman, manager of a mobile-home park on Boodry Street, checks on resident Maricela Cuevas and her family during a flood in August 2019. Around 10 residences on the street were evacuated.
Boodry Street sits beneath a stormwater culvert in South Wenatchee and has flooded a number of times over the past two decades. But the flood and subsequent mudslide of 2019 was the worst residents could remember.A collapsed hillside brought mud, rocks and debris into several mobile homes on Boodry Street in South Wenatchee. Three were immediately condemned by county officials.
Jerry Phillips looks for belongings that survived a mudslide that filled his room during the historic Boodry Street flood. Floodwaters covered everything — including his bed — in rock.Kent Sisson with the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office evacuated residences on Boodry Street in South Wenatchee during historic flooding in August 2019.
Sleepy Hollow Fire
Fire crews make their way down the western front of the Sleepy Hollow Fire in June 2015. The Sleepy Hollow Fire was one of the most destructive natural disasters in Wenatchee’s history. John Bussel of Douglas County Fire District 2 takes a moment to rest his eyes while fighting the Sleepy Hollow Fire in Wenatchee, Washington, in 2015. It was one of the most destructive natural disasters in Wenatchee’s history. The blaze destroyed 28 homes and three commercial warehouses.
Firefighting helicopters work around boats and rafters as they fight the Sleepy Hollow Fire in Wenatchee in June 2015. The blaze destroyed 28 homes and three commercial warehouses.Natalie Narbo looks through the remnants of her house on Maiden Lane in Wenatchee. Her house, along with 27 others, was destroyed in the Sleepy Hollow Fire.
A firefighter battles a wall of fire at Michelsen Packaging in Wenatchee on June 28, 2015. Three commercial warehouses caught fire due to airborne embers from the Sleepy Hollow Fire.Larry Blakey, the facility and food safety director for Bluebird Growers, looks down at rebar sticking up through the floor of an organic cherry line on Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Wenatchee, Washington. The Sleepy Hollow Fire ignited this area of Bluebird’s organic cherry packing line.
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