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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) says crews from the Region were among those who deployed to northern Michigan over the weekend to assist Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) with cleanup after a catastrophic ice storm last month. A news release from INDOT said through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a formal agreement between all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, forty-five INDOT personnel mainly from the Northwest and Northeast districts were dispatched. Rural roads across 12 counties in northern Michigan remain closed due to fallen trees, downed power lines, and other debris following the late March storm, INDOT said . INDOT will work alongside Michigan Department of Transportation to help restore access to areas that are also largely without power. INDOT also said the deployment is its first activation as part of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. A group from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security District 4 Task Force out of west-central Indiana was also deployed to provide meals to the crews.
