Alum survived Alaskan mudslide, Sun Journal reports

Alum survived Alaskan mudslide, Sun Journal reports

The Sun Journal interviewed University of Maine graduate Dave Longtin, ’92, who survived Tuesday’s deadly landslide in Sitka, Alaska.

Longtin, a public works engineer who was inspecting culverts, ran to escape the mudslide. Two people died and one is missing, according to reports.

“[T]he guy I was running with turned around. He saw a house surfing on top of the mud. (Then that house disappeared into the mud.) There’s no evidence it was there. It’s gone,” Longtin is quoted as saying in the article.