Work also is being done on some temporary diking in the city. In Montevideo, Mayor Jim Curtiss says that the city also needs volunteers to fill 25,000 sandbags by Tuesday. The bags will be used to build the dike on Highway 212. Early Monday, Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicles with disaster relief volunteers were dispatched from both Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Granite Falls and Montevideo areas. The volunteers will provide sandbaggers and other relief workers with food and beverages.
Additional units are on standby, to be dispatched as needed.
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