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La Conchita: Life Where Disaster Is Daily Possibility

NPR | By Carrie Kahn

Published January 10, 2006 at 5:35 PM EST

A makeshift memorial marks the site of the La Conchita, Calif., mudslide that occurred Jan. 10, 2005.

Firefighters search for mudslide survivors, Jan. 12, 2005.

Carrie Kahn

Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based in Mexico City, Mexico. She covers Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. Kahn's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning news programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, and on NPR.org.

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