March 28th, 1980
51 days before the eruption
KGW crews report from one of the Weyerhaeuser timber operations on Mount St. Helens and talked with workers, some skeptical of the predictions.
Much of the logging operations were lost in the explosion and eruption that leveled 200 square miles of timber.
Weyerhaeuser lost seventeen employees in the disaster.
This is newly restored video from the KGW archives.
It is presented in it's original 4x3 registration.
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