Road worker Clancy Nichols and his son Danny Nicholos are presumed dead after being trapped in a mudslide deluge in Colorado, rescue workers fear.
Wes Hawkins a bridge engineer is also feared dead along the 51 year old Clancy Nichols and the 24 year old Danny Nichols.
Rescue worked through the rubble and mudslide on Monday but did not find any sign of three men missing after a ridge saturated with rain collapsed.
The Collbran are in Colo suffered heavy downpour causing the ridge to be saturated with rain water sending mud sliding for 3 miles in a remote part of western Colorado.
Clancy Nichols, 51, a county road and bridge employee, his son Danny, 24, and Wes Hawkins, 46, have been missing since Sunday. Fox News reports.
Clancy Nichols, Danny Nichols, & Wes Hawkins died when they went to check on damage from an initial slide near the edge of Grand Mesa, one of the world’s largest flat-topped mountains.
They were called in after a rancher reported that his irrigation ditch had stopped flowing, Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said.
The search near the small town of Collbran has been hampered because only the lower third of the slide is stable. Even at the edges, the mud is 20 to 30 feet deep. It’s believed to be several hundred feet deep and about a half mile wide.
