Return to the Flood Home Page

CAP Teams Help to Hold Flood Waters Back
at Radio Station

Photo by C/TSgt Simone Ramler of Minnesota Wing

Yesterday (March 23rd) CAP Disaster Relief teams were dispatched to the site of KFGO Radio in Fargo to assist with sandbagging operations there.

A tot al of 4 teams were working with members of the community to protect the radio station and it’s transmitting antenna/equipment. The station is a major source of information during emergencies for the residents of the Fargo-Moorhead area

According to Lt Col Troy Krabbenhoft, of North Dakota Wing “If this building goes under, the city and local communities lose vital radio communications. People call into the station and tell them status of their situations and vital communication of emergency broadcasted messages are sent via this medium.”

Their efforts enabled the station to remain on the air and serving the community.

Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 57,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the AFRCC with saving 90 lives in fiscal year 2008.

Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counterdrug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to more than 22,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for 67 years. For more information, visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com.
 

Return to the Flood Home Page