North Dakota dam at risk of failure

Hunt told The Associated Press that Federal Emergency Management Agency officials were bringing equipment to monitor the dam. Fire Chief Karter Lesmann said the city had about 3,000 sandbags on hand for use in the town.

An evacuation could become mandatory if the dam were to fail or if officials became certain it was about to fail, Hunt said. He said it was difficult to predict what sort of damage might result from a failure or how much time people would have to prepare for high water.

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