Updated March 4, 2014 at 9:45 a.m.
A woman who was rescued about three hours after her Missoula home was destroyed by an avalanche has died.
About 100 neighbors converged Friday to help find 68-year-old Michel Colville, her husband and an 8-year-old boy after they were buried by the avalanche in a residential area of the western Montana city.
Police say Colville died Sunday night at St. Patrick Hospital. Her husband, Fred Allendorf, remains hospitalized in serious condition.
He was buried for about two hours before rescuers found him in an air pocket created by a fallen chimney in their house at the base of Mount Jumbo.
Eight-year-old Phoenix Scoles-Coburn was buried in the snow for about an hour. He was released from the hospital Sunday.
Phoenix's 10-year-old sister, Coral, also was outside playing when the slide hit at 4 p.m. Friday, but she was able to dig herself out of the snow.
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Three people have been found alive after an avalanche roared into the western Montana city of Missoula and destroyed a house.
Police say an elderly husband and wife and an 8-year-old boy were rescued after the avalanche Friday.
No one else was reported missing.
All three were taken to a hospital. Their conditions weren't immediately known but police say the man was talking to rescuers.
The elderly couple lived in the house that was destroyed. Police weren't sure if the boy lived there or elsewhere.
The avalanche slid down Mount Jumbo into the northeast Missoula neighborhood at about 4 p.m.
Authorities say avalanche conditions around the city remain dangerous. Police are asking residents of vulnerable neighborhoods to consider leaving but aren't requiring or recommending evacuations.