BREAKING: Marysville, Yuba County evacuated as Oroville spillway collapse feared
Residents scared
Some evacuees in Marysville say their mood is bordering on panic.
Erin English of Linda said she got a robo-call a few minutes ago telling her to evacuate and get to higher ground.
She immediately called 911 and dispatchers there at first told her to go to Chico, then changed their mind saying that she might not make it there before water came through.
Instead they told her to go to the Colusa Casino.
She was getting gas in South Marysville with her husband and two children and her dogs. They didn't have time, she said, to grab anything from their home.
"I'm scared to death. I've never been through anything like this before," she said. "I pray for the safety of everybody here."
Expert says spillway failure could be catastrophic
6:26 p.m.
Nicholas Sitar, the Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Professor of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley, said losing 30 feet from the top of the emergency spillway could be catastrophic.
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