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Town Leaders Said They Were Prepared for Floods. First Responders Disagree.

By Abe Streep, ProPublica · October 21, 2026

The man was nearly to his waist in a flooded river and couldn’t get out. A firefighter and a police officer didn’t have enough rope or manpower to lift him onto the temporary flood barrier that separated them from the debris-strewn water. The man, Jere Stark, had just been carried a quarter mile by a torrential flood…

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Town Leaders Said They Were Prepared for Floods. First Responders Disagree.

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