The 11 likely deaths in Tuesday’s implosion at the paper mill in Longview would make it the deadliest industrial accident in modern state history, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said.
Cowlitz County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said at a news conference Wednesday, “We have declared this incident a transition from rescue to recovery as of this morning.”.
“We’re bracing ourselves for this being the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington state history.
When you have a tragedy of that scale, the impact on individuals, on families and on communities is profound,” Ferguson said.
We do not have the ability to state that we have located all nine, nor the ability to state where those nine were,” Goldstein said.
To bolster the search and rescue, 46 members of the Washington National Guard were deployed to the site.
A number of inspections of the Nippon Dynawave plant remain open, said Joel Sacks, director of the state Labor Department. »
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