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Mar 26, 2009 12:50 pm US/Central

Fargo-Moorhead Nursing Homes Plan Evacuations

FARGO, N.D. (AP) ― Some nursing homes in the Fargo-Moorhead area are evacuating residents ahead of flooding on the Red River.

Elim Care Center in Fargo was planning to begin evacuating residents at midday Thursday. Fifty of them were to be moved to an empty nursing home in Steele, N.D., about 150 miles west.

Two Ecumen assisted living communities in Fargo and Moorhead are evacuating 60 residents and sending them to another Ecumen community in Detroit Lakes, aboout 40 miles to the east.

Several other Ecumen communities in northwestern Minnesota were preparing to take in 32 residents of Eventide Senior Living in Moorhead. They'll be relocated to Ecumen homes in Alexandia, Detroit Lakes, Park Rapids, Pelican Rapids and Lake Park.

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