Residents and emergency crews in towns along the rain-engorged Skagit River in western Washington state braced on Friday for potential levee failures while National Guard troops assisted in evacuations after days of severe flooding in the Pacific Northwest.

The entire town of Burlington, a community of about 9,200 people near Puget Sound, was under evacuation on Friday after the river crested at an all-time high of nearly 38 feet (11.6 meters), well above major flood stage, at the city of Mount Vernon just downstream.

“We haven’t seen flooding like this ever,” said Karina Shagren, a spokesperson for the state’s emergency management division. So far there were no reports of casualties or missing people, she said.

The Skagit River flood plain as a whole, a rural area home to about 78,000

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