 It also recounts that flares were used to help the rescue workers as the avalanches damaged lights as well as cutting off water supply and roads and rail communication.The aftermath of the Blons avalanches resulted in “270 burials resulting in 125 deaths, 55 houses and hundreds of farm buildings [were] destroyed, and 500 cattle were killed.” The population of Blons in 1954 had a total of 376 people and a third (111 people) were killed outright by the avalanches.Half of the men who worked at the Leduc mine in the area were also killed (Ruth, 1998; Davis, 2008).