When the plane landed in Indianapolis, it taxied to a staging area where local volunteers began loading supplies into the belly of the plane, onto the seats and into every overhead compartment.

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In the western part of the city the federal government and Army and local police forces have two staging areas to gather evacuees and take them to shelters mostly out of state.

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