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Tacoma quake survivor remains grateful to the boy who died saving his life 67 years ago
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:07:42
Publish Date: 2019-09-07 12:00:00
Description: This story originally aired Feb. 25, 2017. To live in the Northwest is, to some extent, to roll the dice. If you lived through the 1965 Seattle earthquake, or the Nisqually quake in 2001, or if you just read the New Yorker article about the “really big one” destined to hit our region, you know this well: There are forces under our feet that could just shrug our cities off into the abyss. The push and pull of continental plates is so huge compared with a puny little human. And yet, for a man named Kelcy Allen, the act of a child shielded him from the seismic forces. He’s spent decades feeling grateful to the boy who died saving his life.
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