All visitors and employees at Mount Rainier National Park are being evacuated as the Kautz Creek continues to flood the road between the Nisqually entrance and Longmire.
A park alert was issued about noon.
It’s unknown when the park will reopen. No injuries were reported.
With the roar of burning propane sounding off inches above my head, the ground below me slowly sunk farther away. Oddly, there was no jarring shake to accompany a relatively quick ascent into the sky. There was no turbulence – not even wiggle from the light breeze. It was just the heat radiating from the nearby flame, the dry coolness of early morning mountain air, and, in between the periodic roar of ignited fuel, absolute silence.
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