Is the Minnesota National Guard taking part in the rescue and recovery?

[bluestateguy]

Or are they and their equipment in Iraq?

Does anyone know?

[LisaM]

1. I don't know, but a caller on Stephanie Miller this morning

said that the CITY government had recently taken big steps in ugprading their emergency systems and communications and that that part of the rescue went very smoothly.

[catgirl]

3. That's because they have a great mayor. R.T.

[myrna minx]

4. You're right, RT is a great mayor.

Minneapolis has been drilling and planning Emergency Response for a long time.

[izzie]

2. My guess is they are in Iraq with their trucks.

Nice that Bush has heard of it in the same month it happened.

[Squatch]

9. No. Not true.

[Rick Myers]

5. A large group of our National Guardsmen came home just last week

I know the Nat Guard Blackhawk helicopters are working the area because I've seen two of them.

[rodeodance]

6. the river is moving and the Concrete is shifting, dangerous. divers are taking

it easy-----trying not to get killed themselves.

[azurnoir]

7. They had closed the St Anthony lock and dam

last night to slow the river down a bit, they're less then a mile upstream from the bridge, but it rained alot north of here so it may not have worked.

[Squatch]

8. All MN BDEs are home.

There are no MN BDEs in Iraq.

[orleans]

10. bde? (code for...?)

[Squatch]

11. Brigade.