Residents take it upon themselves to monitor slopes

ONE image etched in the mind of Eriko Motoyama (pic) as her family made their way to safety after a 3.30am landslide hit Taman Bukit Mewah, Bukit Antarabangsa in Ulu Klang is that of a “huge mass of a house sitting on the road”.

“It was pitch dark and eerie. You could see only where you shone your torch. We saw debris, parts of timber, a jumbled mess.
“It was only at the crack of dawn that we saw the enormity of what was in front of us – the devastation and that (collapsed) house in the middle of the road,” she says of the massive landslide on Dec 6, 2008 where five people died and 14 bungalows were destroyed.