2014.018.4093 Nakusp men escape from slide

Accession Num: 2014.018.4093

Negative Code: S1333-30

Extent:

Document Date: 1978-03-28 - --

Donors: Denis Stanley

Creators: Denis Stanley

Keywords: 1970s, Bordula; Ed, Galena Contractors, Hot Springs Road, Hot Springs Road slide (1978), landslide/rockslide, and Pigott; Fred

Locations: Nakusp

Physical Description:
1 b/w negative (35 mm)

Notes:
Galena Contractors driller Fred Pigott (left) and Galena Contractors truck driver Ed Bordula (right) conversing after a slide from a gravel pit near Dinner Creek fell onto Hot Springs Road as Bordula and Pigott were driving to a work site, 28 March 1978. The operators were unharmed but their vehicles were partially buried and had to be dug out.