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April 27, 2008

Multimedia -- Willow Island: Revisited

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cnImage Audio slideshow with historic photos: Narrated by Gazette News Editor and Pleasants County native Vic Burkhammer, who recalls the people he knew and the place where the disaster occurred.

cnImage Video: The disaster's impact still felt, 30 years later: Interviews with people who were there the day of the disaster. A worker recalls helping uncover bodies from the rubble. A woman talks about the cost of the accident to her family. Her son discusses building a memorial monument, and what he learned in the process.

PDF of The Charleston Gazette, the day after the disaster (7.4MB)

cnImage See reports of the investigations into the Willow Island Disaster

cnImage List of the Willow Island Disaster victims

cnImage Watch a short documentary looking at the disaster (history.com)

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It's been 30 years since the worst construction accident in U.S. history claimed 51 lives in Pleasants County. Look back on the disaster, the investigation and the people left behind.