ON THIS DAY: 25 years ago, the ground gave way in the snowy Thredbo Alpine Village in NSW during the night, killing 18 people. Ski instructor Stuart Diver was the only survivor pulled from the debris three days after the landslide. 9News FULL STORY:
Thousands of tonnes of earth and debris slid down the hillside, slamming into a four-storey ski club lodge, which then hit the Bimbadeen Staff Lodge.The front page of the Sydney Morning Herald the day after the landslide.
"I didn't have any information about why I needed to get there but I was told that there were heaps of emergency services vehicles making their way to Thredbo." "It just looked like a giant stomped on the side of a mountain. And you could tell that there were chalets and other buildings and vehicles that had all been damaged and dislodged."Emergency services were frantically trying to determine how they could start the search for possible survivors without setting off another landslide.
"It was absolutely terrifying to think that people were fast asleep in the middle of the night, laying next to their loved ones. "I remember seeing a body being moved, and it was clear to me that the body was frozen stiff," he said.Later that day, a more senior journalist from 2UE had arrived, and Fordham thought it was time for him to leave."God knows what the friends and families that involved were going through.""I said that they're pulling out frozen bodies. There's no one alive under there. And I feel like I should go," Fordham said.
"We need to remember so many people lost their lives and so many families were heartbroken that day," Fordham said.
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