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FARGO, N.D. - In this video released by the Coast Guard, federal state and local agencies offer assistance to people trapped by flood waters in Kindred, N.D., Saturday, April 18, 2009. These residents and their three dogs were evacuated from their house by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat crew and transported from their flooded home to dry land. The Coast Guard, USFWS and other federal, state, and local agencies are responding to North Dakota residents impacted by the recent flooding along the Red River and its tributaries. 

 (Coast Guard video/Petty Officer Eric J. Chandler)

 

In this video released by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Disaster Area Response Team for Coast Guard Sector Upper Mississippi River conducts a sortie to determine the possibility of evacuation of the personnel of a U.S. Navy submarine communication tower in LaMoure, N.D., Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

The Coast Guard and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service re-established three-vessel airboat teams to assist the flood-prone communities along the Red River in North Dakota, April 12, 2009.

(U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Bill Colclough)

Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Collins of Station (ANT) Saginaw River, Mich., awaits an escort from the Barnes County Sheriff's Department with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat team in tandem to conduct area familiarization patrols near communities in the vacinity of Valley City, N.D. along the Red River, Tuesday, April 14, 2009. The Coast Guard and the USFWS re-established three-vessel airboat teams under the direction of a Unified Command, Sunday,, April 12, 2009, to assist flood-prone communities lying on or near the river. (U.S. Coast Guard/Photo by Petty Officer Bill Colclough)

Petty Officer 1st Class James Collins, a boatswain’s mate from Station Saginaw River, Mich., awaits an escort from the Barnes County Sheriff's Department, along with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat team to conduct area familiarization patrols near communities in the vicinity of Valley City, N.D., along the Red River, Tuesday, April 14, 2009. (U.S. Coast Guard photo / Petty Officer 2nd Class Bill Colclough)

Photograph of: A home in Valley City, N.D., surrounded by sandbags

This photograph released by the U.S. Coast Guard, was taken during an overflight aboard an HH-65C rescue helicopter of the Sheyenne River in Valley City, Monday, April 13, 2009.

Local, state and federal agencies taking part in the Red River and Sheyenne River flood response continue to monitor river conditions throughout the area.

(U.S. Coast Guard photo/ Petty Officer red Class Patrick D. Kelley)

Photograph of: Vehicles on Interstate Highway 94

Vehicles drive through water that has over-topped a section of Interstate Highway 94, just west of Tower City, N.D., Monday, April 13, 2009. A Coast Guard HH-65C rescue helicopter and crew conducted overflights of flooded areas from the Sheyenne River.

(U.S. Coast Guard photo/ Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick D. Kelley)