Tukwila, Desimone levee
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Early Tuesday morning, multiple homes were evacuated in Pacific after a breach of the levee, just hours after another incident on the Green River near Tukwila.
A levee has failed on the Green River, and people who are in low-lying areas of Kent, Renton, and Tukwila should move to higher ground immediately.
A levee about 10 miles south of Seattle failed on Monday, December 15, prompting evacuation alerts for residents in Tukwila, Renton, and Kent, Washington.Footage from the King County Sheriff’s Office’s Guardian One helicopter shows workers repairing the breach along the Green River in Tukwila on Monday.
The water flow is expected to increase by about 10% to return to normal levels, according to a press release by the corps.
Tukwila Police clarified evacuation orders were for a specific industrial area and not residential or commercial districts.
Sound Tree Care LLC was working in Tukwila near the levee when it broke on Dec. 15. Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their home, and their son Nick is now being questioned by police Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, Dec. 14 Nick was said to be acting odd at a party.
TUKWILA, Washington, EE.UU. (AP) — Los residentes cerca de un dique roto en el estado de Washington recibieron órdenes de evacuar el martes, solo unas horas después de que se levantara una alerta de evacuación para los residentes cerca de otro dique roto en el mismo condado.