In 2019, flooding hit the small Mills County, Iowa, town of Pacific Junction.
Recovery is slow, Mayor Andy Young said in August 2020, a year after the waters rose 7
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Wildfires are becoming an ever more present threat and forcing communities in the western United States to learn to live with them. Episode 3 of News21's State of Emergency series.
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