Within 2 hours the depot communications center brought a helicopter from New Cumberland to evacuate 30 people from Catawissa. Shortly after that the depots military affiliate radio station brought a National Guard helicopter to evacuate 19 people trapped by the flood waters south of Catawissa. As the Susquehanna River continued to rise. the depot called for and obtained 100.000 sandbags in a desperate effort to control the flood at WilkesBarre. And on Friday. as the first 2.000 refugees from the flood were evacuated. Tobyhanna established facilities to house them. and provided the trucks to transport them. By Saturday. the destruction had become horrendous.
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