A mudslide has destroyed two houses in the small Shuswap community of Tappen and caused the evacuations of four more. The fire chief of the community, Kyle Schneider, said one of the houses on Sunnybrae-Canoe Point Road was cut in half by tumbling trees and boulders. Emergency Health Services says two ambulances were dispatched to the scene and took two people with minor injuries to hospital in Salmon Arm. "I think there was a vehicle up there, and there were one or two people standing on the road looking quite distressed." Tappen is a community on the shore of Shuswap Lake about a 15 minute drive north of Salmon Arm.

Source: CBC News April 08, 2017 01:07 UTC