Bismarck’s three manned sandbag sites are now being run by volunteers. North Dakota National Guard soldiers had been running the sites Thursday. This afternoon, their focus was shifted from sandbag production to sandbag delivery. But the sandbag output did not change.
“Our volunteers did a great job this afternoon. I was very impressed with how the volunteers stepped up to the plate and came out to fill sandbags. We hardly noticed a difference between when the Guard was running the site and from when the volunteers took over,” says Bismarck Police Lt. Steve Kilde.
Kilde says as of 8:00 pm, volunteers had filled nearly 20,000 sandbags between the city’s three sandbag sites. Four million filled sandbags are needed for the city’s flood fight by Thursday.