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ST. LOUIS - The Coast Guard, along with other federal, state and local agencies, continues operations in flood-affected areas in North Dakota along the Red River and its tributaries.
Coast Guard aircrews and boatcrews have conducted several patrols of flood-affected areas along the Sheyenne, Red, and James rivers and have rescued two adult females since Monday, April 16, 2009.
Coast Guard crews have been deployed to Emergency Operations Centers in North Dakota to coordinate response efforts with local and state officials.
Coast Guard assets responding are:
- A Disaster Assistance Response Team from Marine Safety Detatchment St. Paul, Minn., staged in Tower City, N.D.
- A DART from MSD Quad Cities in Rock Island, Ill., is staged in Enderlin, N.D.
- An MH-65C rescue helicopter and crew from Air Station New Orleans, staged in Fargo, N.D.
- An HH-65C rescue helicopter and crew from Air Station Traverse City, Mich., staged in Fargo N.D.
- An HH-65C rescue helicopter from Traverse City, Mich., is staged in Fargo, N.D.
- An HH-65C rescue helicopter from Air Station Detroit, Mich., is staged in Fargo, N.D.
- An airboat from Station Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., staged in Enderlin, N.D.
- An airboat from Station Saginaw, Mich., staged in Tower City, N.D.
- An airboat from Station Marblehead, Ohio., staged in Tower City, N.D.
- An airboat from Station Sturgeon Bay, Wis., staged in Fargo, N.D.
- A smallboat from the Coast Guard Cutter Scioto, staged in Enderlin, N.D.
- A smallboat from the Coast Guard Cutter Sangamon, staged in Tower City, N.D.
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In this photograph released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Exor Padro (far left), executive petty officer of Station and Aids to Navigation Team Saginaw River, Mich., participates in a briefing of the response agencies for the Red River flooding at the Barnes County Courthouse Emergency Operations Center in Valley City, N.D., Thursday, April 16, 2009.
In addition to Padro, a representative from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Cass County Sheriff's Department and the chief of the Valley City Police Department took part in discussions and planning for potential evacuations of communities along the Red River.
(U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class Bill Colclough) |
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In this photograph released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class, Al Monterroza, a boatswain’s mate, leaves a submarine communications site, after checking on the welfare of U.S. Navy personnel at a submarine communications site in LaMoure, N.D., near the James River, Wednesday, April 15, 2009.
Monterroza along with additional crews from Coast Guard Sector Upper Mississippi River's Disaster Area Response Team, arrived in Fargo, N.D., Saturday, April 11, 2009, with several airboat crews composed of the Coast Guard and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to assist flood-prone communities along the Red River in North Dakota.
(U.S. Coast Guard/Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Bill Colclough) |
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In this photograph released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class, Al Monterroza, a boatswain’s mate, moves away branches and debris from the engine’s propeller, after checking on the welfare of U.S. Navy personnel at a submarine communications site in LaMoure, N.D., near the James River, Wednesday, April 15, 2009.
Monterroza along with additional crews from Coast Guard Sector Upper Mississippi River's Disaster Area Response Team, arrived in Fargo, N.D., Saturday, April 11, 2009, with several airboat crews composed of the Coast Guard and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to assist flood-prone communities along the Red River in North Dakota.
(U.S. Coast Guard/Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Bill Colclough) |
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In this video released by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Disaster Area Response Team from Coast Guard Sector Upper Mississippi River conducts an underway patrol to check on the welfare of U.S. Navy personnel at a submarine communication site 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)
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