Flood Call 1157

Tim Murphy from the Cass County Sheriff's Department calling from Fargo to ask for information on flood conditions.

Date April 19th 1997, 12:29 am
Duration 147 seconds
Channel 23
Direction incoming call
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Yeah, what can I do for you?
Well, you probably don't remember who I am.
I used to work up there.
I basically was just...
I'm now down here with the gas guy.
I was just going to take him to make sure that I can call...
Did Rich lose his house today?
Yes, everybody in Lincoln area.
But, Egg Abroad.
My brother lost his house.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Did Butch lose his house today?
Yes, everybody in Lincoln area.
Butch, Egg Abroad.
My brother lived right down by Egg, so my brother must have lost his place.
Yeah, Egg Abroad lost his...
I believe Butch did Anderson.
There was, I think, four of our people that lost their homes.
My daughter lost their contents.
Is it under control?
We heard right now that downtown is flooding up there.
Is that true?
Yeah, we just evacuated you.
It was the end of our basement.
We're trying to get all of our 9-1-1 transfers taken out.
We're trying to get all of our 9-1-1 transfers taken out.
We're trying to get all of our 9-1-1 transfers taken out.
We're trying to get all of our 9-1-1 transfers taken out.
Is it under control?
We heard right now that downtown is flooding up there.
Is that true?
Yeah.
We just evacuated you.
It was the end of our basement.
We're trying to get all of our 9-1-1 transfers taken out.
We're trying to get all of our 9-1-1 transfers taken out.
We're trying to get all of our 9-1-1 transfers taken at this time.
We're asking for a volunteer evacuation of the whole city, the whole city.
Everybody's going to get some water.
I don't know how much.
Okay.
We're getting all down here.
I have a lot of people I asked about up there.
My daughter lives there.
Am I wherever?
Yep.
We're asking for volunteer evacuation of the whole city right now.
We've got areas that we have mandatory evacuations on that's mainly downtown here, the Riverside,
Central, and Lincoln Park area.
Okay.
How about Amaretto?
Is the base going to take those people out?
Amaretto has a shelter open.
They can take three to five hundred people.
The base is open.
Okay.
We're telling people they can head out there.
So what I can tell them is check out there.
Is there contact numbers out there that they can call?
Amaretto Fire Chief's number is 594.
Okay.
594-2498.
2498.
Yep.
And base number is 747-5351.
747-5351.
747-5351.
Yep.
Okay.
Well, I can't recall any and it was put in the note that the Kim Murphy sends is better
and I'm so sorry.
Okay.
I appreciate it.
I saved my place down here but so far.
Good luck to everybody down there too.
Bye.
Okay.
Thanks a lot.