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• "We're asking the federal government just to get us back up to our normal funding," Archambault said. "This will help, but it's not enough."
• The tribe has set up shelters in two communities -- one on each side of the border -- that are getting help from the American Red Cross. They have not yet been widely used, Archambault said, but he fears what could happen in coming weeks.
• "It doesn't help when there are Arctic blasts coming through, requiring furnaces to run nonstop," he said.
• Wind chills early Friday in the region were in the minus teens and 20s.
• Archambault said the tribe might open as many as six more shelters around the reservation if needed.
• "Right now we're maintaining," he said. "The alarm will really go off when more and more people start making requests for propane."
• Two Red Cross volunteers helping with meals, cots and blankets at the shelters were to return home Saturday, along with an emergency response vehicle, said Dan Kuecker, the agency's disaster program manager for western South Dakota.
• However, "if the need becomes great, we'll have people right back on the ground," he said.
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• BUFFALO, S.D. (AP) -- A Lubbock, Texas, man was killed when he lost control of his pickup on a snow-covered highway in northwest South Dakota.
• The Department of Public Safety says 27-year-old Brett McDaniel crashed head-on into an oncoming pickup. The driver of that truck was injured but will live.
• The accident happened Thursday on U.S. Highway 85 about 12 miles south of Buffalo.
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