As families frantically pawed through red earth and flotsam and jetsam that had covered their groups inside only a couple of hours, another dread was at that point grabbing hold.
Spouting sloppy waters had filled poor groups, slaughtering no less than 500 individuals, leaving numerous more destitute and destroying what were at that point exceptionally essential water and sanitation frameworks.
In spite of the fact that disaster has effectively struck, things could deteriorate.
"The surges and avalanches have made harm water and sanitation frameworks in influenced zones consequently bringing about sullying of vast water sources, and furthermore made conceivable rearing locales for vectors like mosquitoes," World Health Organization Sierra Leone officer in control, Dr Alexander Chimbaru, said.
Substantial uprooted populaces, restricted clean water supplies and no or unhygienic spots to go to the latrine, all make the ideal conditions for fatal maladies to spread quick.
Inside four days of the catastrophe, the Sierra Leonean government had approached the new UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) to convey to Freetown and enable them to keep a noteworthy flare-up of sickness.
The group is comprised of best specialists, who focus on bouncing on a plane inside hours of a catastrophe anyplace on the planet.
It was made because of the world's late response to the Ebola flare-up in West Africa.
Little did the group realize that one of its first organizations would have returned to one of the most noticeably awful Ebola-hit nations.
"We got the approach 18 August, and I was on a plane inside three days," said disease transmission expert Maria Saavedra-Campos.
"I
t's deplorable we have to return again in these conditions. However, it's reasonable how versatile Sierra Leoneans are.
Their employment - in short - is to enable nearby governments to stop real episodes previously they begin.
"We are a piece of an extra level of observation of ailment that the administration set up after this debacle struck. We do dynamic case finding" said Ms Saavedra-Campos.
"We are searching for what we call 'pestilence inclined' illnesses, for example, cholera, measles, intestinal sickness and typhoid."
Consistently, the group goes into group wellbeing bases in and on the most exceedingly terrible influenced zones and encourages neighborhood wellbeing laborers to fabricate the frameworks expected to accumulate itemized data about ailments in neighborhoods.
For instance, what number of individuals revealed having looseness of the bowels or a fever in the group that day, what prescription or other intercession were they given.
Social event this data every day helps assemble a superior picture of whether there might be little groups of malady that could be the beginnings of a noteworthy flare-up.
The thought is any potential scourge is gotten super-early, so it can be stamped out before it spirals into a national or even global crisis.
"A considerable lot of these wellbeing specialists have themselves lost friends and family in the mudslides," said Ms Saavedra-Campos.
"It is a troublesome circumstance, and we are requesting that they report each morning while some of them are as yet lamenting. "
"We attempt to make it simple as conceivable by going to them frequently and having a nearness.
"Government groups and NGOs [non-legislative organisations] likewise do comparative visits."
Keeping a crisis
The World Health Organization says the death toll in Sierra Leone has been destroying, both after Ebola and this current fiasco, and the recuperation will again require some serious energy.
"This was an unforeseen catastrophe which brought about sudden death toll and property and is gigantically horrible," said Dr Alexander Chimbaru.
"Individuals here are unimaginably overcome and strong, however we ought not think little of the impacts an occurrence like this can have on individuals' psychological wellness and prosperity."
UK-PHRST is subsidized by the British government, which thinks getting engaged with such alleviation endeavors abroad is cash well spent.
"Maladies can spread quickly around the globe," said Ms Saavedra-Campos.
"We can go to the opposite side of the globe in under a day, infections couldn't care less about outskirts - we've seen that here in Sierra Leone with Ebola.
"In the event that we can identify maladies early and handle them at source, they won't spread to neighboring nations or universally - including to the UK."
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