Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Firefighters are crediting a 10-year-old girl with helping save her younger brother from being washed away into a flooded concrete culvert. Waterloo television station KWWL reports that firefighters were called to Bontrager Park around 7:00 p.m. Thursday. They found 8-year-old Charlie Cizek of Waterloo, clinging to his sister, Caly, after falling into a flooded concrete intake drain.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Officials in Dubuque have closed several floodgates as the National Weather Service predicts the Mississippi River will crest above flood stage in the coming days. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald says that the city closed the Ice Harbor floodgates on Friday as the National Weather Service predicts the Mississippi River will crest at 17.9 feet this weekend. That’s nearly a foot above flood stage.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Power company Alliant Energy is investigating the cause of a weekend power outage that affected three Linn County communities in eastern Iowa. Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports that the outage lasted from about 12:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. yesterday, affecting 9,000 in parts of southeast Cedar Rapids and the communities of Ely and Bertram.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A four-alarm fire has partially collapsed an industrial warehouse on Des Moines’s north side. The Register reports that more than half a dozen area fire departments were battling the blaze since about 9 a.m. Saturday at the warehouse, which houses a paint company and two automotive suppliers.