DATE: April 18, 2009 6:21:14 PM CDT

Office of External Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard

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News Release

Date: April 23, 2009

Contact:  Coast Guard Public Affairs
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Coast Guard assists U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with evacuation in N.D.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Andy of Coast Guard Station Sturgeon Bay, Wis. assists a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat crew offloading a family and their pets near a submerged road along the Red River in Kindred, N.D., Saturday, April 18, 2009. 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.(U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer Bill Colclough)

Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Andy of Coast Guard Station Sturgeon Bay, Wis., assists a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat crew offload a family and their pets near a submerged road along the Red River in Kindred, N.D., Saturday, April 18, 2009. 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.(U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer Bill Colclough)

Petty officer 2nd Class Tim Andy, a machinery technician from Coast Guard Station Sturgeon Bay, Wis., helps a Kindred, N.D., resident offload her personal belongings after she, her husband and their three dogs were evacuated from their house by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat crew on a flooded street along the Red River, Saturday, April 18, 2009. 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. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer Bill Colclough)
Petty officer 2nd Class Tim Andy, a machinery technician from Coast Guard Station Sturgeon Bay, Wis., helps a Kindred, N.D., resident offload her personal belongings after she, her husband and their three dogs were evacuated from their house by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service airboat crew on a flooded street along the Red River, Saturday, April 18, 2009. 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. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer Bill Colclough)

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