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FORT ANN, N.Y. (AP) – About 200 homes in a northern New York village were evacuated this weekend after a recently rebuilt dam crumbled, causing local flooding. Officials said no one was injured, the Post-Star in Glens Falls reported.

The Red Cross set up a shelter for displaced residents of Fort Ann, 55 miles northeast of Albany in Washington County. Niagara Mohawk said about 600 customers in the area were without power.

One home was destroyed when it caught fire and officials were unable to get trucks through the water to it.

Emergency officials said the dam at the south end of the mile-long Hadlock Pond failed.

John Aspland Jr., Fort Ann’s attorney, said replacement work on the dam started in September and opened in May.

The dam was replaced because the state’s Dam Safety Commission determined it didn’t meet the commission’s new standards, officials said.

Mitch Beck, assistant chief of the West Fort Ann Fire Department, said officials were talking to state engineers and the dam architect to determine what happened.

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