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Rainier looming threat spurs Orting evacuation drills
In the shadow of Mount Rainier, Orting residents face potential lahars that could bury the town within 45 minutes. Officials from federal, state, and local levels, and residents, are practicing emergency evacuations, with drills planned as part of ongoing mitigation despite the area’s growth and belief disasters may not strike in their lifetimes.
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Ortine
Wash
Mount Rainier
Mount St. Helens
Willie Scott
U.S. Geological Survey
Kilauea
Hawaii
Big Island
Rainier
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue
Otting
Orting
Dawn
Scott
Fort Lewis
Janet L. Mathews
Mount
ST. Helens
US Geological Survey
Seattle-Tacoma- Bellevue