Flood help and advice if you & # 39; re cleaning

Sauquoit Creek, was south of New Hartford is one of several rivers that flooded on Saturday. We have information about water and wind damage in CNY and support of household cleaners. (Photo courtesy: WKTV News)

Aid organizations mobilize hundreds of homeless by storms and floods to help, and there is help for people who have high water and wind damage are clean, too.

Cruz - Hello Red Army and set relief operations in Oneida County Saturday the help of nearly 100 evacuees , mainly due to flooding in the city of Utica.

A refuge was established in Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES in New Hartford.

Hello Army helps residents and rescuers in Munnsville east of Cazenovia in Madison County area.

These efforts are ongoing and could be extended if necessary.

On Sunday morning, the Red Cross opened a center for emergency operations for Syracuse responses to flooding in several communities across the center of New York to coordinate.

Also Sunday, the Hi Army and the Red Cross began cleaning kits provides, including bleach, rubber gloves, mops, buckets and Oneida and Cayuga County south.

On Monday, the two organizations want to start in Cayuga County a canteen in the place of refugio Locke firefighters.

The Red Cross has established a "tip sheet" in safe and effective flood cleaning:

• If the gas or electrical appliances have been flooded, do not use it until safety checks.
• Wear protective clothing, including rubber gloves and boots when cleaning and maintenance of the hidden dangers
• can weigh furniture or muddy deposits much more, be careful when moving.
• You will be free of objects, absorb water and can not be cleaned and disinfected, including mattresses, carpeting, cosmetics, stuffed animals and toys.
• Dispose of food, beverages and medicine exposed to flood and mud. If in doubt, it throws away. (Canned, plastic utensils, baby equipment and containers can not have seals)
• To avoid service septic tanks, wells and leaching systems as soon as possible future health risks.

More tips on what to do before, during and after a flood, click here.

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