City of Mt. Vernon issued the following announcement on Sept. 10.
The American Red Cross disaster assessment coordinator advises they are going to have disaster assessment and case work teas inm town tomorrow to coordinate with the City of Mt. Vernon and Jefferson County EMA to do assessments and casework and also to pass out clean up kits to anyone that might need them that was affected by the flooding. The EMA team will also be collecting damage data from the area to send to IEMA as required. Please be aware that they will be in the area and are legitimate. They will have identification credentials with them and will not be soliciting any products. Thank you for your patience during this difficult time and we are working to help get any assistance we can to those affected.
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