STODDARD COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - The Missouri Department of Transportation and the Missouri Department of Agriculture have agreed to let heavier than normal loads of farm products from flooded areas be transported to safer storage.

According to MoDOT, many farmers have grain and livestock in areas threatened by rising floodwater and possible levee breaches.

"In light of recent heavy rainfall and high river levels, we want to give producers every opportunity to move livestock, supplies and equipment to higher ground," said Director of Agriculture Dr.

They answered a call for help.

When their supervisors told them their assistance was needed in Joplin, Mo. paramedics from North Scott County Ambulance, South Scott County, Perry County, and Stoddard County responded.

Last Friday two members from each ambulance district packed up and formed a team heading to the tornado ravaged city.

"There's so much destruction," said Lisa Little.

Little is a paramedic with North Scott County. She says her team spent four days in Joplin answering EMS calls on the South end of the city.

"At one point we worked 78 hours straight," said Little.

She believes they were there to help relieve some of the stress taken on by local emergency crews who have been working around the clock since the tornado hit last Sunday.

"I hope nothing like that ever happens around here, but if it does I hope that people here would pull it together like out there," said Little. "It was organized."