NEW YORK -- Teams of New York City Fire and Police officers are assisting in rescue and recovery efforts in upstate areas hit hardest by flooding.
Three dozen members of the fire department are in Binghamton. And as many as 30 members of the olice department's Special Operations Division were sent to Binghamton with a number of heavy-duty police vehicles to support local law enforcement.
The office of Emergency Management says police water rescue equipment is also being sent, including two, 15-foot boats, scuba equipment, HazMat and decontamination equipment.
The Department of Sanitation is mobilizing 50 workers, who are headed to Delaware County. They're scheduled to leave early Saturday morning from the Bronx.
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Residents Begin Cleaning Up after Most Devastating Flood in Years
LIVINGSTON MANOR, N.Y. (AP) _ The clean-up and damage assessments are under way in the upstate counties hit by flooding that some people are calling the worst on record.
Thousands of New Yorkers have been displaced by this week's flooding in more than a dozen upstate counties.
In northern Sullivan County, many residents say it's the worst flooding any of them can recall. The raging waters claimed the life of a 15-year-old girl who died when her home in Livingston Manor was swept away.
Further west along the Delaware River, flood waters were believed to have hit their highest ever, thousands of residents are dealing with flooded basement and muck-filled homes.
The flood damage is also being tallied along the Mohawk River, and in the hardest hit areas near the Susquehanna River in and around Binghamton.
State Officials to Tour Flooding Sites
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton are touring the upstate sites hit hardest by this week's torrential rains and flooding Friday.
Clinton and Schumer will visit Binghamton, Livingston Manor and Canajoharie to discuss federal resources to aid in the recovery and cleanup efforts.
Nearly 3,000 people displaced by flooding remained in shelters yesterday and dozens of state and local roads remained closed as high flood waters lingered throughout central and eastern New York.
Gov. Pataki's office Thursday asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to conduct damage assessments in 13 counties.
Schumer has said he was pressing FEMA, the federal Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration for financial aid.
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