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Volunteers Help with Clean-up After Flood

posted 5:33 pm Thu May 01, 2008 - Des Arc

reporter: Anne Pressly posted by: Katrina Dupins

tags: des arc • flooding • prarie county • recovery

Channel 7 News - Volunteers Help with Clean-up After Flood

Floodwaters are starting to recede in Prairie County, but the clean-up there has only just begun. Volunteers from out of state are helping the process move faster. Clean-up is hard work, especially when you’re cleaning up after a flood.

(Eddie Gove, Des Arc) “Everything is just saturated with water. Everything is three times its weight. That couch about killed us getting out of here.”

But moving that same couch is no sweat when you have a crane and a crew like crew like Tad Agoglia’s Disaster Recovery Solutions.

(Tad Agoglia, Disaster Recovery Solutions) “What many municipalities in rural, small-town American can accomplish within a month, we can do in a couple of days.”

And Agoglia doesn’t charge the people or the county a dime. The former New Yorker makes his money cleaning up after hurricanes – and spends it helping towns like Des Arc recover from other types of weather-related disasters.

(Agoglia) “We just came from Norfork, Arkansas and a lot of the wells there were testing positive for e-coli. It’s concerning a lot of the citizens, so the removal of the debris is a start.”

A start to what will likely be a long recovery process.

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