Salt Lake City is hosting volunteer events this weekend to help fill sandbags. The events will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday at two separate locations: the “Big Field” at Sugar House Park, and at the west side’s Rosewood Park.
Salt Lake City officials are hosting sandbag-filling events this weekend.
Mounds of sand are being trucked into the parks on Friday. The events will last until 5 p.m., or all sand has been bagged. If there is still sand left over on Sunday, efforts will start back up at the parks at 9 a.m. People work to protect homes into the night along 1700 South in Salt Lake City from the rising flow of Emigration Creek through Wasatch Hollow Park on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
One volunteer, Scott Hepburn, said he lives just south of the impacted area. He recently had been laid off, and said he had some free time on his hands.Another volunteer, Charlie Sanchez, who is retired, said he heard about the flood and “just wanted to come up here and help.”
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