One of the more interesting stories of someone who actually survived this is as follows. He was or is a medicine man of one of the Tribes in the U.S. who was camping at the time there at Mt. St. Helens. He got up to take a pee off a cliff from camping there and the eruption happened. The concussion blew him off the cliff and into the river below. Then he was underwater with logs and branches and debris hitting him but later he was able to crawl out of the water and he lived. Being drowning under the water saved his life. So, he was the closest person to the volcano going off who actually lived through it. Everyone else died from the explosion for miles in all directions. 57 people died when the volcano went off.
The eruption also killed:
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- Directly from the eruption: Most of the 57 victims were killed directly by the blast, which included pyroclastic flows, a deadly mix of gas, ash, and rock.
- Indirectly: Other fatalities occurred due to accidents in the poor visibility caused by the ash cloud or from fatal heart attacks while shoveling ash.
- Location of victims: While official danger zones were established, many of the victims were located outside these designated areas, as some danger zones were too small and emergency measures were not fully implemented before the eruption.
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