Survey · January 25, 2026

Every Last One

As documented January 25, 2026.

Survey date

January 25, 2026

Condition

Good

Condition notes

Corten steel plate carries an even rust patina; the incised lettering is fully legible. The adjoining interpretive panel is intact and legible, with a glare wash across the panel’s middle-right (over the rotated credit and pull quote) and two to three fine diagonal lines crossing its lower right.

Inscription

"We're not waiting for anybody. This is for the people who are under the ground that we are looking for, and this is for the people on top of the ground right here, right now." — ALBY WESSON Local Logger, Slide Responder EVERY LAST ONE A Grim Chapter Ends On April 28, the official search for victims ended, with 41 bodies reclaimed. However, two people were still missing, so local agencies and volunteers persevered. On May 22, they found the remains of Steven Hadaway, who had been installing a satellite TV dish outdoors when the slide struck. And finally, on July 22, they discovered Kris Regelbrugge in what used to be her garage buried under more than 18 feet of debris. With 43 total fatalities, the catastrophe became the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. The slide response was unusual in that it brought together both emergency professionals and community volunteers. In 2015, the State of Washington awarded these volunteers the Medal of Valor, observing that they "worked tirelessly and selflessly to help friends and neighbors in their hour of peril and helped their communities come together and heal." [Photo: a man in a camouflage cap with his arm around a woman in a light blue fleece, outdoors.] The Herald, Genna Martin, University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Volunteers watch as a recovered body is lifted into a helicopter. [Photo: a man in a dark jacket, back to the camera, facing an American flag on a stripped cedar tree trunk.] [UNVERIFIABLE: photo credit at lower left of the flag photograph - below resolution] When the last victim was finally found, rescue crews returned to the flag on the cedar tree trunk. It had been at half-staff for four months. The assembled group lowered the flag to the ground and raised it clear to the top. "We've changed how we see community involvement in disasters. You can't worry about whether somebody's got a uniform on or not; you take the help and you go forward." — TY TRENARY Snohomish County Sheriff [Photo: panorama of the slide debris field, excavators working across bare gray mud and standing timber.] AP Photo / The [UNVERIFIABLE: publication name - below resolution], [UNVERIFIABLE: forename - below resolution] Boyd

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