The City of Tukwila is encouraging people to be ready to leave on short notice due to possible flash flooding.

TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — Crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle on Monday after a small section of it failed following a week of heavy rains, prompting an evacuation order covering parts of three suburbs, an official said.

Early Tuesday morning, multiple homes were evacuated in Pacific after a breach of the levee, just hours after another incident on the Green River near Tukwila.

A Flash Flood Warning was issued for parts of King County, Washington, after the Green River levee failed near Tukwila, prompting evacuation orders and life-threatening flooding concerns. The alert affects Tukwila,

Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the same county

A levee has failed on the Green River, and people who are in low-lying areas of Kent, Renton, and Tukwila should move to higher ground immediately.

The water flow is expected to increase by about 10% to return to normal levels, according to a press release by the corps.

Tukwila Police clarified evacuation orders were for a specific industrial area and not residential or commercial districts.

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Sound Tree Care LLC was working in Tukwila near the levee when it broke on Dec. 15. Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their home, and their son Nick is now being questioned by police Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, Dec. 14 Nick was said to be acting odd at a party.