Dramatic video shows man's rescue from Squaw Valley ski resort avalanche

'Just keep digging around him,' someone says, of the man found trapped beneath the snow on Friday at Squaw Valley. 'He's breathing.'|

LOS ANGELES - Dramatic video taken by a snowboarder shows the aftermath of an avalanche in Northern California, with people furiously digging out a man buried alive under snow.

One of the videos, released to The Associated Press on Monday, begins with a woman lying on the encased man, Evan Huck. She carefully clears snow from his face as others work to free his body using their hands and shovels.

"Just keep digging around him," someone says. "He's breathing."

Another man says: "Whoever spotted that snowboard sticking out, good job."

Heather Turning, a Roseville, California resident, who was snowboarding at Squaw Valley Ski Resort when the avalanche hit on Friday, helped dig Huck out and said that the whole time he kept asking if his wife was OK.

In the other video released to The Associated Press, Huck's wife can be heard pleading, "Please, please, please," praying for her husband to live.

Huck's wife, Kahlynn Huck, had been buried nearly up to her neck but was able to eventually free herself while the others helped her husband.

Kahlynn Huck said in an Instagram post that she and her husband had been snowboarding when the avalanche "slammed into our backs and tossed us down mountain."

"It was six minutes until Evan was uncovered and he had passed out from lack of oxygen shortly after burial," she wrote. "He came to on his own again once the rescuer was touching his cheeks."

She credited the ski resort's rescuers and all the regular skiers and snowboarders who helped her husband.

"You are heroes and we're eternally grateful," she said.

Although five people were buried by the avalanche, everyone survived and only one person had serious injuries.

Another avalanche hit Saturday at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, about 170 miles southeast of Squaw Valley, partially burying three people. There were no injuries.

Heavy storms in recent days have dumped more than 6 feet of snow in some of California's higher elevations.

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