Must-watch video: Raging Montana creek swallows bridge as it collapses, flood emergency declared

LIBBY, Mont. – A raging creek tore done a span and claimed a roadworthy successful Libby, Montana successful a must-see infinitesimal captured connected camera.

Onlookers could lone ticker connected the day of Dec. 11 erstwhile the powerfulness of the Libby Creek tore done a span connected Farm to Market Road, completely destroying the span and roadworthy that erstwhile was. 

Video footage displays the destroyed bridge, and the jaw-dropping infinitesimal a monolithic slab of factual succumbs to the raging water. 

FEDERAL EMERGENCY DECLARED AS HISTORIC FLOODING SWAMPS WASHINGTON STATE

A major atmospheric river lawsuit brought rounds of moisture to the Northwest, wherever the effects were felt successful Lincoln County successful Northwest Montana among a big of different locations passim the region.

A motion for a Christmas histrion workplace is pictured arsenic flood waters from the Snohomish River screen Marsh Road disconnected State Route 9 successful Snohomish, Washington, connected December 11, 2025. Tens of thousands of radical were nether evacuation orders Thursday successful occidental North America, aft days of dense rainfall forced rivers to burst their banks. Storms person battered Washington authorities successful the US and British Columbia implicit the Canadian borderline for respective days, with rivers continuing to rise. 

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Across Lincoln County, similar galore communities successful the region, flooding has inundated large roads and forced evacuations.

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According to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, astatine slightest 5 bridges crossed the region person been damaged oregon destroyed arsenic exigency effect teams and proscription officials measure infrastructure conditions and usher betterment efforts. 

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Due to the wide flooding, a boil h2o advisory was declared for Libby by the Lincoln County Health Department owed to a imaginable bacterial contamination successful the drinking h2o system. 

"The Libby nationalist h2o proviso has experienced precocious turbidity owed to county-wide flooding," a property merchandise said. 

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A boil h2o advisory means the h2o successful your assemblage has, oregon could have, germs that tin marque you sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte issued an enforcement bid declaring a flood exigency successful Libby connected Dec. 11, arsenic wide flooding swamped Northwest Montana, with much rainfall forecast to autumn successful the region.