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Upstate group sends help for LI Sandy victims

quot;We never forget,quot; said David Shampine, a Jefferson

Photo credit: Handout | "We never forget," said David Shampine, a Jefferson County, New York resident and a reporter with the Watertown Daily Times. (Feb. 7, 2013)

A group of residents from upstate Jefferson County say they never forgot the help Nassau gave them during a devastating ice storm 15 years ago and are moving to repay the debt.

In January 1998, after a major storm battered the Northeast with several inches of ice and devastated parts of Jefferson County, 20 volunteer fire departments from Nassau sent equipment and firefighters to help.

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