. >> at 6 feet 8 inches, bob deyoung cuts an imposing figure on a pre-dawn walk that has become ritual for more than a week. de young has been humbled by the framility of the foothills -- fragility of the foothills. the opener of a logging business, he is one of 200 years working the recovery, and the sheer force of the slide that buried neighbours, he calls family, he calls haunting. >> i was a police officer for many years. i seep a lot of stuff. a lot of death and, you know, that type of thing. i never seen anything like this. not so much that it's people carnage, it's devastating. >> there is a house and a big slide and it is covering the road. >> 911 what is your emergency. >> there was a mud slide or something, hundreds of trees or something have fallen outside of my house. >> in those terrible moments as the disaster unfolded de young was attending a funeral before rushing back to help. >> do you personally know anyone killed in the landslide or who is currently missing? >> yes, multiple. >> forehands of yours? >> yes. >> the mudslide covered nearly a square mile, reducing homes