An avalanche swept away a group of people near a ski resort in the French Alps on Wednesday, prompting helicopters to take to the sky to ferry the injured, officials said.
The incident happened around 4 p.m. (10 a.m. ET) near Les Deux Alpes, a ski resort about 60 kilometers (37 miles) southeast of Grenoble, a representative of the tourism office in that area told CNN.
A worker at CHU de Grenoble said that helicopters were transporting injured to that hospital.
France’s Gendarmerie Nationale, or national police, tweeted that a military brigade and dog handlers were at the avalanche site.
So, too, was a helicopter equipped with a thermal camera — presumably to detect signs of anyone who might be buried in the snow.