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Show A5 Red River Still a Flood Threat for North THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. VINCENT, Minn. — With rain slowing their work, exhausted residents of thelittle prairie farm towns near the U.S.-Canadaborder manned the dikes on Saturday as they workedto hold off the swelling Red River. Ron Bordeniuk and just five others have stayed home in St. Vincent, population 100. working long hours to shore up the dikes against the water that surrounds the town. Na- tional Guardtrucks bring other residents back to join them during daylight hours. Bordeniuk, a mechanic and a city council member, has been getting about two hours of and was weary from worry as ical labor. There's old people calling me up at night, asking if I can save stuff for them,” he said, putting his head down as tears welledin his JohnGaps IIl/The Associated Press Sheila Varnson hugsher cat Sparkyafter being reunited Saturday in East Grand Forks, Minn., after recent area flooding. eyes. A similar battle was going on acrossthe river in Pembina, N.D. Hardly anyone was using the bridge con necting the two towns,soa St. Vincent hard- House Fire in California Kills Nine People THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Arson dogs sniffedthrough the charred home's Temains. Officials said the fire, which was extin- firefighters had trouble reaching because of barred windows, burning carsandpitbulls. Seven people, including three firefighters, were injured. Thevictims,includingfive children ranging inage from 5 to 11, appeared to be part of a family, San guished in a half hour, probably started in the home’s carport. é Firefighters were hampered by two “hyped-up pit bulls in the back yard, bars on the windows and burning cars that blocked the doorwayand carport Schapelhoumansaid. Thepit bulls were unhurt and Mateo County sheriff's Sgt. Don O'Keefe said. Also killed were a 20-year-old woman, a 19-year-old woman and her 41-year-old mother, and a 59-year-old elementary school librarian. The bodies were found in hallways, bedrooms and were taken to an animal-control shelter. Among the injured werea 37-year-old manin critical condition, an 11-year-old boy in stable condition and a 26-year-old woman in fair condition. The child's 78-year-old grandmother wastreatedfor res: closets after the 6 a.m. fire in this town about 30 piratory problemsandreleased miles south of San Francisco, fire Capt. Harold Scha- pelhoumansaid. the reach of the water as a precaution The river at St. Vincent, about two miles south of the Canadian border, was at 55 feet on Saturday, and waspredicted to crest Sundayor early Monday at 56 feet. That would be 6 inches below the top of the clay-and-sandbag dikethat surrounds the entire town. Bordeniuk said residents feel that St. Vincent and othertowns likeit are too smallto get much attention from the government, although the state had sent National Guard membersto help out. Muchofthe focus has been on GrandForks. N.D., about 50 miles upriver, where most of the 50,000 residents were evacuated and then fire destroyed a block of the downtown The river crested Monday at Grand Forks andstarted to slowly recede Amongthose who had moved out of St. Vincent were Verna Lofberg and her husband, Mayor Lorne Lofberg to do,” Verna Lofberg said. They had piled furniture, canned food, a toaster and knickknacks into their upstairs bedrooms, emptying kitchen cupboards and ing only a hanging plant anddrapes inthe rst-floor living room. Across the U.S.-Canada border, Manitoba had evacuated 17,000 residents along the Red all the way to Winnipeg, about 55 milesto the north, and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien went to the region on Saturday to announcedisaster assistance. 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