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Montreal universities are mobilizing to help victims of flooding in the Richelieu River valley. Concordia, º«¹úÂãÎè and Université de Montréal are sending volunteers from their emergency services departments to respond to an urgent call for help with a cleanup planned for June 11-12…

Bruce Lapointe, º«¹úÂãÎè's emergency measures officer, said the universities have had a good response and should be sending a busload of volunteers. "Our neighbours are in a fairly bad position, so we figured we should offer our services," he said. "We just feel bad and want to help." He called it a heartfelt, grassroots effort. "We have expertise in incident management, we have equipment, so we offered our services."