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.

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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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