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A 2005 West Wendover graduate now living in Japan is reportedly safe and sound following last week’s earthquake/tsunami.
Former WWHS football star Kasey Crawford notified friends and family that he is safe and healthy following last weeks combined natural disasters that devastated Japan.
Crawford employed as an English teacher was living in Tohoku, Japan when the earthquake struck last Friday.
“We were able to speak with him almost daily for the last couple of days,” said mother Anne Crawford. “He told us everything was okay and that he was prepared and had a survival kit. He is located not too far from an American military base and was going there this week.”
Crawford went to Japan two years ago after graduating from Linfield College in 2008.
Tohoku is the principal city in the Tohoku prefecture located in northern Japan. In fact the recent earth quake is now being called the Tohoku quake. Tohoku is a region in the northern part of Honshu, Japan’s largest island. Though the region — encompassing six of the island’s northernmost prefectures — sits north of the massive quake’s offshore epicenter, it became its namesake because it takes up much of the area shaken by the earthquake’s approximately 250-mile-long rupture area.
Crawford is the only Wendover resident currently living in the disaster stricken country.